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CEI Genuine Certain-teed "Union Leader"?Be;>i THE U Food Pledge Week Be&ran Yesterdnv (By Associated Press). Washington, Oct. 2H.?Food Pledge Week begins throughout the United States today. It will he the culminating seven days following months of preparation to enlist America's 22,000,000 housewives in the government's food conservation campaign. The opening smash of the big drive was food conservation sermons Sunday morning and evening by a majority of the country's hundred thousand ministers. This was followed this morning by the active field work of the national army of F>00,000 men and women volunteers which has been organized and preparing for the drive for weeks. The ministers' verbal explanation of how and why the government wants its 22,000,000 housewives to conserve wheat, meat, fats and sugar so we can make up our European Allies' food shortage will be emphasized by the volunteers personally visiting each housewife. Special statements endorsing Food Pledge Week have been issued by high dignitaries and divines of the various churches. Cardinal Gibbons made this plea to the Catholic women of A morion fr> J'' the food conservationers: 'It gives me great pleasure to say that the patriotic work which is being done by Mr. lloover and his various state organizations has my hearty support and approval and I sincerely hope that our Catholic women will everywhere give him their earnest assistance in this campaign." Bishop William Fraser McDowell of the Methodist Episcopal church, urging his people to sign the Pledge card and join the campaign, said: "The Methodist Episcopal Church is supporting this righteous war in every possible way. Part of that support relates to the vital matter of food conservation. We have heartily en\ dorsed the program for Food Pledge Week and we urge all our families I i to unite in the food saving campaign as presented by the government. It would help mightily if we had a hundred per cent of our families signing the pledge cards. The war for freedom must be won. We must help at every point." Directing himself to the farm women of the nation, Herbert Quick of the Federal Farm Board, and editor of farm papers and magazines said: "Food Pledge Week is a big and splendid thing. The attention of the nation must be centered upon it Do you know what the Food Pledge Week 'drive" will be? Every home in the United States will be visited dtirimr this week by patriotic people who will tell how food may he saved for ov soldiers, the soldiers of our Allies, for the poor people of the warring rations and for ourselves, (let into the Food Pledge Week Campaign. Make your kitchen a food pledge kitchen and do all you can to make all other kitchens food pledge kitchens. "You will thus help win the war." The United States Food Administration tonight expressed its anxiety that the 500,000 men and women volunteers who go up and down the land ringing doorbells this week put the "simple though vitally important food conservation plan" clearly before every housewife, impressing upon each the real significance of the old song: i "Every little bit added to what i you've got, makes just a little bit I more." It is the "Uittle Hit," added by each j of our 22,000,000 housewives, which } is going to make up the food shortage 1 and avert famine and disaster among 1 our European Allies, the Administra- \ v.wn UUl. i President Wilson has evinced his \ Food Pledge Week's success. "If we are to supply our Allies p with the necessary food," said the p President in a letter to the Food f Administrator, anent Food Pledge p G O Union County Farm Li Farm Lands are as sur others yet for sale. Oi F. F. K " ^TAIN-TI Note These Low I Roofing: 1 ply, guaranteed t on Earth for the Money?Roo NION HA Another Week, "and are to reduce our own prices of foodstuffs during the coming winter, it can only be accomplished by the utmost self-denial and service on the part of all our people through the elimination of waste and by rigid economy in the use of food. Recent cables to the American government from the government, of France have stressed the imminent food shortage in that counutry and begged that no effort be spared to get the needed supplies to keep hunger from descending upon the the people of France. Thousands of school children will follow up the work of the 500.000 volunteers. These children have been organized and working on preliminary Food Pledge Week campaign work throughout the country for weeks. The same is true of the churches. Besides the churches, societies, lodges and other local social and civic organizations are working with the volunteers. Many hotel and restaurant men have enlisted their establishments in the campaign and will no their bit to get the housewives inlcreated. Judging by preliminary estimates of enrollments in the various states, based on reports from the volunteer I imifp * 11? ----- - mcniavivcs, nit- vast mapjoritv of the country's 22,000,000 housewives will be actively enrolled in the campeiprn when it ends a week from today pnijrn when it ends next Sunday. Greek Persecution i Charged to Teutons. 1 i (By Associated Press) 1 Athens, Greece, Sept. M0.?Cor- 1 rspondence)?Greek authorities have ( received information which convinces j them that not alone the Turk but j his -German advisors were re-ponsible for the deportations of Greeks from Turkish dominions, as a consequence of which 700,000 have suffered persecution or death. y It is asserted that the Greek le- ^ nation at Constantinople protested to the then Kinjr Constantine of v Greece from the bepinninp of the de g portations but received no assistance ^ or encouragement from him. The le- ^ tration then lodged a protest with ^ Talaat Bey, the Turkish Grand Viz- y ier. r His reply, as shown by official pa- ^ pers was that "these measures are taken by advice of our German advisors." The Greek legation then took ^ up the subject with the German -j j General, I.iman von Sanders, who is declared to have replied that the presence of the Greek communities [within the Ottoman Empire was dan o | gerous to military operations and that he was "only executing the or- i dors of the Clerman General Staff." k An account of the persecution of . the Greeks which has been given to The Associated Press states: "The method of -depopulation adopted has been very similar to the tl method adopted with regard to the n Armenian races. During the night, T armed irregular troops of the Turkish i.< army would form a cordon around the Gl doomed district. The inhabitants nj would be awakened by means of bells aJ and ordered to evacuate the village in t.c ten minutes, for military reasons. No extension of time was allowed, one ob- T ject being that the victims should not be able to take anything with them, either food or goods. In the event of delay ,the troops drove the li\ terrified people at the point of the to bayonet. It "The moment that the people had ne {one, hordes of bandits and irregular mi ioldiery poured into the empty vil- bo ages and looted and burned the th< louses in a frenzy of destruction, it vhile the inhabitants, old men, women hit tnd children as well as the able bodied, en vere on the march. "Soon after the march began, the us, irocess of extermination began to be tal >ut into effect. Men were separated a rom their women and children, and un< ?anies were made up for a trek to|da; ??? O D F ands are just as good and a v e to double in value in from lr prices are right and our te LELLY & E led RC Prices on the Best 1 5 years. $2.25 per square, fing: 1 ply, $1.23 per squar< RDWARE Car Just Recc 1' Edisonia Harvey D. Oi The! Original Cast an( 22 SONG HITS FEATURE EXTRA! Haunting Tu Most Beauti Biggest Suc( | Prices 50c, $1 various places, usually locations in far-distant parts of Asia Minor. Needess to ^ay, few of these parties ever reached their destination, being grad1 111 1 \7 I'illorl r\fF ...uvu wit u; c.\|junuie or starvation. Thousands died in barren lesert lands. Without food or drink, ind poorly clad, a speedy death at .he hands of the soldiers would have )een welcomed by many. The solliers, however, seldom attempted direct killings at this stage, except of efugees who attempted escape, the ioldiery generally being content to let lunger and thirst and exposure do the vork of extermination for them. "The lot of the women and children vas the usual one, which has beeig.decribed many times in accounts of he Armenian deportations. Being1 deenseless, they fell a prey to the first asserby. Any Turk along the way rho fancied a child or a young wonan, merely took possession, and housands of young Greeks are now (itemed in Mussulman villages, for ihly "converted" to Islam and forced o live as servants or concubines of tho 'urkish peasantry. "In the neighborhood of Constantiople, many of the deportees managed n return and appeared in the streets f the capital, starving, begging and leeping in the back streets and al?ys. To abate this scandal, the Turish government had the police col>ct hundreds of these wretched perms and concentrated them at Pacaldi, here their fate is not yet known. It is declared that, as a result of lese deportations, all Greek commuities have been eliminated in the hracian regions of Demotica, Sufli, itranja, and Eregla, from the coast the sea of Marmora, from the pensula of Artaki, from all villages ong the Rosphorus and from the >ast of the Black Sea. . ? i he New Industrial Gospel : i (From Textile Manufacturer) 1 The humane rule to "live and let f e," has never before meant so much ' the American mind as it does today. 1 is striking in upon us clothed in a ( w and deeper and more dignified r jailing. It is what the common larer is uttering to the employer in t ese strange and distressing times, c is what the employer is saying to h i government. It is what the gov- ii anient is saying to both. p In the new crusade that is before v ( it was# inevitable that it woul l o ;e some time to bring about such t< marked translation was forced b on America. It was only yester- it y, it seemed, when we were running V rARI rhole lot cheaper. If you < 3 to 5 years as the world s rms are easy Do the sensl 1RO., "Th )OFING "hat the Money Con 2 ply, guaranteed 10 years, $ 3. 2 ply, $1.50 per square. 1 CO MP A? lived ? Come t< Theatre, Tu< rr Presents the S] Hillior 'he Biggest Novelty And 40 People! Carload of S I 1 Production! j THE IMPERIAL ORDINARY Sometlilng Ne ines! Cultivatin ful and Expensive Costum cess in Years! 1.00 and $1.50. Si alonjr in the quiet lanes of peace, where industry was unthrottled, when labor was steady and employment was easy of access; when prices were hiprh, hut not intolerably high, when tho whnlo filwo vi ami ictwiu- ui uur social and industrial life was impeturbed save by occasional outbreaks and infrequent notes of discord. Suddenly we woke up to find ourselves in the midst of the greatest of all of history's wars. We had to begin at once the task of readjustment, of fitting ourselves in with the new exigencies, of meeting the strange duties which war inflicted. The government looked to its vast and powerful industrial captains and these industrial captains looked on down out upon the tremendous multitude of laborers. The government said to the captains of industry: "I must have your plant; I want your machinery to run at my command and to make commodities for my use. I will see to it that you get the profit but private enterprise and individual business must give way before the pressure of the government's demands." With what instant readiness the industrial chieftains replied is io abundant evidence. The government must live, therefore, it must as those it has protected and for whose wellbeing it has been fostered to utilize their agencies and apply their plants for the promulgation of its policies Similarly, it has come on down until the same insistent voice has been heard by the multitude. The masses of men everywhere are responsive to needs of the government, are ready to contribute what they can that the government might live, but their importunity is as unceasing as that of the manufacturer. They must also live. They have needs that must be met. They have mouths that must be fed. They have tasks that must be performed. They have economic destinies thatmust be worked out. Their ?reat individual task of living has not >een taken from their shoulders. They :an still call out frc .j under the burlens society is hearing that they, too nust live. And so, during the crude processes hrough which we are passing, the risis, forced upon us by war as could < lave been forced upon us by no other maginable contingency, is going to i lermeate us with new industrial ideals i /hen it is all over ai.d wc revert to ; ur wonted ways of peace and unin- 1 errupted thrift. "Shall we make ( usiness social or shall we make pol- s ,ics industrial," asks an economist? j /e are already engaged in doing both. 1 US ( ever expect to own a farm, lands. We have sold sevei ble thing?See US before buy, p T >or?H Mo . ? av* XTXV/ 4 ) PRODU Buy?Regardless? 2.40 per sq. 3 ply, guarantee 3 ply. SI.75 per square. *Y, - Un ^ w - J ate US! jsday Evenin neediest of all Mus i Dollai Dance Show of The Seas icenery and Electrical Effects! A Musical Corned QUARTETTE! "T~ ~G/ GARDEN NOVELTY Till? IV V I w! Don't MIfcs It! 1 UL 1LLI g Chorus! Youf es Ever Carried With a Koi Magnificent $ eats on Sale at Peo , The pendulum is swinging in both dii rections at this moment. We are all, more or less, feeling the new thrill t of social sympathy, we are finding t a new atmosphere in which the spirit of co-operation can exist, every mar is striking hands with the greatest partner in enterprise he has ever had in his life, the United Stntr>? ? ? -? fl>" *-? 11 I ment. His social cravings and social aspirations will reach up into the circle of politics underlying governmental authority and the government will reach down to the social planes upon which its subjects are groping. Socialism and industrialism, not in the technical and diluted senses in which those words have come to mean, but in their broader interpretation, will have a new baptism thrust upon them. The business of the government to live will be correlated in a new sense with the business of the individual to be allowed to live along with it. Local Drug* Store Begins Manufacturing The Peoples Drug Store, of this ( city, having been so markedly successful the past two seasons with the "K-W Brand Cough Syrup" and K-VV Brand Grippe Capsules" (Lawson Formula) have decided to put on the 1 market a full line of household remedies and already have quite a number manufactured and bottled. Each article will be labeled with the "K-W Brand", which the manufacturers intend to make a mark of highest pur- ity and their absolute guarantee.? 1 Adv. "The Million Dollar Doll." "The Million Dollar Doll," which j will be the offering at the Edisonia theatre on Tuesday evening, Oct. 30, has two of the greatest comedy characters on the stage today, Melvin Meekman, a hen-pecked husband, and j Jasper Jackson, a colored servant, are left at home to look after the household when the other depart for the San Francisco Exposition. However, Melvin and Jasper are not to be out done, so they disguise themselves and c ship on the same boat, Melvin as a common sailor and Jasper as a potato peeler. One can hardly imagine how ? much trouble these fellows can get _ into; on the voyage and after they | arrive at the exposition they have a lard time getting even one meal a Jay and are about to give up in despair, when Melvin draws the grand jrize in the Argentine Lottery ami lecomes immensely rich.?Adv. *-? ^ JTJL JLLj J-2 it will pay you to buy it N< ral Farms in the past few da ing. If we can't do you any good, n," Union, CTS id 15 years, $2.75 per sq. ion, S. C. , ig, Oct 30 sical Comedies rDoll on ly That Is Different! IY GIRLS GALORE JMINATED RUNWAY h arid Beauty! id Production, itage Settings! pies Drug Store "Go-to-Sunday-School" Day The Sunday school of the Church of the Nativity will have special exercises on Nov. 1th. This is "Go-toSundav-SrhnrJ ? ? ?. , ou recommended by both secular and church authorities and it is earnestly desired that every communicant of the church be present. A cordial welcome will also be extended to all visitors and persons whose obligations do not call them elsewhere. SPECIAL ADVERTISEMENTS | DO YOU WANT all kinds of Fruits and Vegetables? Do you want all kinds of Home-Made Candies? Come and see us. You will find what you want and will be treated conrteously. Phone No. 37, A. Kcrhulas, Candy Kitchen. 42-8t-4-d-w. [JET $5.00 WORTH OF FUN from the Divorce Case Wednesday evening by paying 10 and 25c to see the trial. DON'T FAIL to see the great Divorce Case Wednesday evening, Oct. 31. PHE FEMALE CHARACTERS will be visions of liveliness in the Divorce Trial Wednesday evening. WILL BE IN UNION Saturday with three, extra fine fresh milch cows. Come and see me if you want a good cow. Can be seen at Bailey's Stable. Ed Jeter. 8-3-pd X)ST?At Red Cross headquarters, a small pair of shears. Finder will please communicate with Mrs. J. W. Mixson. <OST?One frold lavelier between <>7 South Mountain street and the First Presbyterian church Sunday morninpr, Oct. 2S. Finder please notify E. L. Purdy. 11-1 HEAP MONEY TO LOAN for lony periods of time, on city and farm property. See Barron & Barron. COOPER FURNITURE EXCHANGE 27 Main St. UNION, S. C. Buy, Sell and Exchange Everything in Furniture Very l.ow Prices on Rebuilt Furniture tP! DW. Union County ys, but have several we will do you no harm r\ i - - 'I . I