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v. + * . I \ J Abbeville Press and Banner 1R44. $2.00 the Year. Abbeville, S. ., Tuesday, Dec. 10, 1918. Single Copies, Five Cents. 75th Year. II iUVUVIJIVW _ W URGE MEMBERSHIP! ON ALL AMERICANS President Appeals to I 'People to Join Red Cross Organization. CHRISTMAS GREETING HUMAN FAMILY NEED Head of Nation Points to War Work of Society and Call* for Renewed Assurance of Support for Country's Soldiers and Sailors? Help for Stricken People. (Washington, Dec. 8.?President Wilson, in a proclamation made public today, called on every American to join the American Red Cross Christmas "Roll Call Week," December 16 to 23, "and thus send forth to the wh^fle human family the Christlias greeting for which it awaits ind for which it stands in greatest leed." The proclamation, prepared >efore the president departed for Sarope, follows: 'The White House, Washington, D. " ** ?oe 1Q1Q IV., ?UVHUUC1 AV, 4.v?vr To the American People: ^ "On? year ago 22,000,000 Ameri ans, by enrolling as members of the ted Cross at Christmas times, sent o the men who were fighting our nttles overseas a stimulating mesage of cheer and good will They lade it clear that our people were t their own free choice united with heir government in the determinaion not only to wage war with the istruments of destruction, but also y every means in their popper to reair the ravages of the invader and Iistain and renew tne spirit 01 me rmy and of the homes which they presented. The friends of the Am ican Red Cross in Italy, Belgium id France have told, and will tell pain, the story of how the Red Cross orkers restored morale in the hostala,* in the camps and at the cannments, and we ought to be very oud that we have been permitted be of service to those who|? suffergs and whose glory are the herige of humanity. "Now, by God's grace, the Red rose Christmas message of 1918 is be a message of peace as well as uxonA n# onnd mill "R?f r? OOfC IlWWOO^e VI 5 wu niMt *#M>v es not mean that we can fold our ,nds. It means further sacrifice, lr membership must hold together d be increased for the great tasks come. We just prove conclusively an attentive world that America permanently aroused to the needs the new era, our old indifference ne forever. "The exact nature of the future rvice of the Red Cross will depend the program of the associated vernments, but there is immediate Iea toaay ior every nearxenmg irk and for every helpful service, e must not forget that our soldiers d our sailors are still under orders d still have duties to perform of b highest consequence and that t Red Cross Christmas raemberp means a great deal to them, "fhe people of the saddened lands jreover, returning home today, lere there are no homes, must have | assurance that the hearts of our Iple are with them in the dark and Lbtful days ahead. Let us, so far Iwefcan, help'them hack to faith Knercy and in future happines.. |Ab president'of the Red Cross, Iseious in thiis great hour of the bo of such a message from the lerican people, I should be glad if 17 American would join the Red ? for 1919 and thus send forth ;he whole human family the istmaa greeting for which it waits for which it stands in greatest (Signed) "Woodrow Wilson." rom cities to cross roads, its ler unfurled, the Red Cross irfully mothers the world. - ;,S ' fc'y . . i L - i I - CASUALTIES YET TO BE REPORTED Many Not Communicated to Next of Kin?Arrears in Major Casualties, However, May Be Cleared Up Within Week. Washington, Dec. 7.?The war department announced yesterday that 16,000 major casualties, including killed in action, died of wounds, died of disease or other causes, severely wounded and missing, have not yet been finally reported to the next of kin. The arrears in minor casualties is much larger, it was added. From cable reports expected, the department hopes to clear up the arrears in major casualties within a week, except for a few names with respect to which identification has not yet been completed. The minor casualties not yet reported to the next of kin represent slight wounds involving relatively brief disablement The official statement issued today shows that of the total major casualties reported by General Pershing on November 27, 50,928 have been reported to the next of kin, with 7,550 3till to be reported. Of the 14,565 missing and prisoners of war, sent in by General Pershing, 1^4,093 have been reported to relatives, but of the 189,955 total wounded, only 69,841 have been cleared up finally. The statement gives the following official explanation of the discrepancy as to the wounded: <4Ten thousand men seriously Wounded and reported by cable are being held up because of discrepancies in initials or enlistment numbers and 100,000, less seriously wounded, including many slight casualties, are still to be drawn from the hospital records which have been forwarded by courier from France. "The records are not alphabetical and the work is necessarily slow as the same name usually appears more than once. In one case a single name _ AA j. ml. appears m zu cunereni places. me work upon these hospital records is seriously delayed by the influenza epidemic." The foregoing statement does not cover all the discrepancies as will be seen, but in dealing with so great a number of cases it may be assumed that the remainder is in process of checking and that reports will be made within a few days as to all identifiable casualties." DR. BRISTOW CALLED. TKo mamhore nf tlio Rnnfinf CAn. gregation in Abbeville have extended a call to Dr. Louis J. Bristow, the former pastor of this church. Dr. Bristow was in Abbeville over Sunday and preached twice for the congregation. The call was extended at a meeting held after the morning service. It is not yet known whether the call will be accepted. Dr. Bristow and his family left Abbeville reluctantly some years ago in order that | he might take up the work at the j Baptist Hospital in Columbia, others having failed with the work. He has ! accomplished the task set before i him of paying off an indebtedness of | about $12,000 outstanding against ! the institution and has nut it on a | paying basis. Having done this, he I has been contemplating for a year returning to the ministry, his resignation as Superintendent of the Hospital having been tendered sometime ago. | His friends in Abbeville outside of the Baptist Church, as well as memben of the church hope that he will accept the call which has come to him.' He was the leader in building the beautiful church of thia congregation in Abbeville, as well as in building up the congregation itself, and in no other place will he find work where he will have more co I operation, and where he will meet | with as much success as among his former supporters. A soldier boy's second best friend is his national mother?the American Red Cross. ?Buy W. S. S.? LLOYD GEORGE IS TALKING OF PAST "SHALL NOT FORGET" SAYS LLOYD GEORGE "Send Your Ships" Was President Wilson's Answer. British Prime Minister Remembers Well Dark Morning When He Called for Help?America Answered by Sending 1,900,000 Men Across. Leeds, Eng., Doc 7.?"I shall never forget that morning when I sent a cable message to President Wiison telling him what the facts were and how essential it was that he should get American help at the speediest: possible rate and inviting him to send 120,000 infantry and machine x- T7? >? .J gunners tu jciurupe, nu > iuuki Lloyd George in the course of a speech to 3,000 persons here today. "The following day," continued the premier, "there came a cablegram from President Wilson: 'Send your ships across and we "wriil send the 120,000 men.' "Then I invited Sir Jsoepli McKlay, the shipping controller, to Downing Street and said: 'Send every ship you can.' "They were all engaged in essential trades because we were cut down right to the bone. There was nothing that was not essential. We said: fTVif. in +l\? w*f\ fairing t?ia Ira ' JLIlld 19 tuc IU1IC Iv* "We, ran risks with our food and we ran risks with essential raw materials. we said: . " 'The thing to do is to get these men across at all hazards/ "America sent 1,900,000 men ' across, and out of that number 1,100000 were carried by the British mercantile marine. The good old ships of Britain have saved the liberty of the world many times. They sayed it in the days of Queen Elizabeth; saved it in the days of Louis XIV; saved it in the days of Napoleon and have saved it in the days* of Kaiser Wilhelm II. * '"It is a change from December, 1916; a change from the days when, ~4- iVM IV. - uu tuc cnu ui me year, we luuue uur balance sheet and found Germany had acquired more allied territory than she had before; that a new ally had fallen and that another was toti tering to the fall and that Germany J was advancing ruthlessly along from j conquest to conquest. "That was the story up to the end; I of December, 1916. What is the story ! today? Every German submarine is i I in a British port today. The best ; battleships and cruisers and torpedo i boats of Germany are now, with 1 'owered flags, under the survellance ! t \ of British harbors. "And the British army which has fought so gallantly?which has fought with a heroism which the | world has never matched?that army, after months of fighting and of suffering is today, at this hour, marchj ing across the Rhine into Germany ! and into one of the most famous citj ies of Germany." I CHANGING RESIDENCES. ! ] Mr. Robt. S. McCombs has sold his j plantation near the city, and has purj chased from Judge Fuller Lyon the j residence on Greenville Street lately i occupied by Mr. G. A. Harrison. Mr. McCombs plans to move into the residence at an early date Mr. C. W. Hinson has rented the cottage on Greenville Street formerly occupied by Mr. Graves. He and his family have already moved in. Mr. A. T Hall has sold his residence on Cambridge Street, just beyond the residence of Mr P. A. Roche, to Mr. J. H. Whaley. He has purchased one of the residences on Magazine street belonging to Wm. P Greene, and will more in about the middle of January. i SERVICE POOL NOW URGED FOR U. I Theo. N. Vail, Head of Telegraph Co. Makes Recommendation. MORE LAWS NEEDED TO PERFECT SYSTEM Letter to Postmaster General Burleson" Says Arrangement Can Be Brought About Without Dismemberment of Properties? , Cable Situation Grave. Washington, Dec. 8.?Pooling of the telephone and telegraph facilities of the country on the one hand and the marine cable lines on the other, each with a comprehensive operating organization under a single executive head, is recommended to Postmaster General Burleson by TheoXT ir.n ? ; j 4. 4-u ? UU1C 11. V oily piCSlUCUb U1 UIC A1Uerican Telegraph and Telephone Company. In his letter, made public today, Mr. Vail said the pooling arrangement would brought about without dememberment of the properties and in such a manner that they could be turned back to private ownership at the expiration pf the period of government control. "What should be done to create an ideal system," said Mr. Vail, "can not be done because of existing laws, nor would complete consolidation be airii>o tn unHn on/?V? a cnn. solidated system into its former units would lead to unwarranted waste. "There are, however, many things which can be done which would prevent waste and which might, by improvement <)f service, help to further educate the public and create an actively favorable attitude toward some correlation* or coordination of operation and service with the control and regulations and restruction, through some combination of government authority ;&nd private ownership retaining all the advantages and incentives of both. Mr. Vail, who is acting as confidential adviser to Postmaster General Burleson in the control of the wire communication system taken over by the government, discussed! the land and marine wire organiza tions separately. If the United States, he said, is to become a com-| mercial and industrial world center, an American cable system consonant with the obligations and opportuni-'j ties of the country must be organ-j ized. GINNERS REPORT. Tha, amount of cotton ginned to' Dec. Rt, according to the ginners report issued Monday morning, is 9,563,124 bales. The amount ginned *o the same date last year was 9,-J 704,000, or nearly 150,000 more than, his year. The crop was short last ear, and the indications are that ft will be shorter still this year. The government's estimate of the' cotton crop for the present year will j be issued on Wednesday. Notwithstanding the low figures of: the ginners' report, cotton opened, down on Monday morning some thir-l ty points. After losing another thirty points, it- recovered mosfc of the loss from Saturday during the morning. MOVING. Miss Cornelia Tennant and Miss Lula Logan have moved on Greentnl 1 m. Cft*AA^ WAW llAWIA XA*w auu aic iiv n aumo wv their friends at the residence of Mrs. J. D. Kerr. DR. HADDON HOME. Dr. C. D. Haddon is in the city on a visit to his mother, Mrs. W. H. Long. He has been mustered out of the service and is ready to begin the practice off his profession in times of peace. Every one wiahee him success in life. EX-KAISER KNOWS HE MUST ANSWER CRIMINAL CHARGE Knowledge Prevent* Hit Granting Interview, He Say*.?German Delegation to Negotiate William*!* Trfial. Amerogen, Holland, Dec. 3.?"I am a private citizen and while in Holland will not make any statement whatever for publication." This was the former German emperor's message to the Associated Press correspondent when he called at Count von Bentinck's castle again today. The German general acting as orderly, formerly governor of Metz, brought the message direct from William Hohenzollem, who last evening was inclined to make a public declaration, but today changed his mind. The message continued, "You must fully realize my position, I am threatened on all aides with criminal charges, which, if brought, I must face. Therefore, I must reverse any statement until charges are actually brought. "Also, I owe a certain loyalty to the present German government and cannot make a statement that might compromise others." The correspondent requested the general to ask the former cmporer whether he would confirm the crown prince's assertion regarding the >r telegram, and the general ' rought back the answer: "The crown prince is absolutely correct in his facts. The telegram,] already written, was laid before me, for signature. "I refused to sign it for three days, but finally did so under pressure of the German diplomats and my political advisers, who advanced many reasons for sending the dispatch. Of course, having signed it, I take full responsibility." xne lormer emperor and empress ire leading a very quiet life. Their Lable is of the simplest; in fact, they have submitted to regulations requiring them to be rationed for bread and butter and other eatibles just as the ordinary country folk. Occasionally they walk in the surrounding woods but recent days have been so wet *:hat it has been almost impossible for them to get out except for a car riage drive. The Kroger telegram referred to by the former emporer was sent by] him to "Oom" Paul Kruger, presi ! dent of the Transval republic on January 3, 1896. It was the outcome; of German "flirtations" with the [ Transvaal republic, during which the' inf anf i ATi o a# ~- ? J *** ?! u.?vui,iuiiii ui ucnuany lowara JDnt- j ish influence in South Africa caused j deep concern. * ALTOGETHER RESPLENDENT. | ' ' 1 ' Mr. R. W. Smith," who is known asj plain Dote when he wears his over-j alls, was up street early Mondayj morning entirely surrounded by his, "vines." He had on a new tailor-j made suit of clothes, a twelve dollar pair of shoes, a big black Tillman hat, a new boiled shirt, one of the latest cuts in stylish collars, with; other things to match. We took him for Governor Manning until we were near enough to hear him laugh, and he told us that someone had already taken him for the editor of the Press and Banner. He was thankful, however, that nobody had taken him for Jim Stark or Bob Hill. MR. SANDERS BUYS HOME. Mr. J. D. Sanders, whose marriage we noted recently, has purchased from Mr. J. M. Daniel, Jr., the cott -i?i _ ?? ?_ lage on magazine street in wnicn Mr. Daniel resided while here. As soon as possession can be given Mr. and Mrs. Sanders will move in and commence house-keeping. ANOTHER GOVERNOR. Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Cooper an nounce the arrival of a new Gover nor, R. A. Cooper, Jr., at their horn# on December 8th. REGULAR FORGES ' ARE TO REMAIN National and Guard Troops Home in Midsummer Months. MARCH EXPLAINS SYSTEM IN EFFECT Eight of Thirteen Divisions Now Approaching Rhine Made Up of Men Enlisted for Period of Emergency?Congress May Change Law. Wasmngton, Dec. 7.?Eight of the 13 divisions, comprising the American Third Army now approaching the Rhine, either are National Guard or National Army troops, and there is every reason to believe they will be on American soil again by midsummer, . General March, chief of staff, announced today he anticipated no difficulty in getting these units home within four months after peace has been established formally. President Wilson, in his recent address to congress, said the sessions of the conference probably would be concluded by spring, and based on this estimate of the time, General March's statement was accepted to mean that these forces would return during tb? summer. TWA MofiAwal 1.1-.-. * TTV AlUVlVlIOl VJUOiU 1/1V191UUB) U1& Thirty-second and Forty-second, and two of the National Army, the Eighty-ninth and Ninetieth, now are in the front line of the army of occupation which was within 20 miles of the Rhine last night, according to (teneral Pershing's report The Twenty-eighth and Thirty-third National Guard and the Seventy-ninth National Army are in the Second line, constituting the reserve which is occupying Luxemburg aqd various rail centers in France . including. Montmedy, Longuyon, Etain and St fcfihiel. The First, Third, Fourth and Fifth Regulars comprise the ? remainder of the advancing army, while the Second and Seventh Divisisions are with the re?erv?. The estimate as to th* r.wt that all except regular divisions will have been withdrawn from Franc* by midsummer is based cn General March's reply to a question as t? steps necessary to obtain an extension of the enlistment period for men fn the army of occupation. "The law about the men who were raised in the National Army, is -that .hey must be discharged four months after the declaration of peace," he said. "That, I think, also was extended to include men who made voluntary enlistments in the regular army. I won't have any difficulty in bringJ? Tn ' * - ii?6 uatn. jLium r ranee ine socailed National Army divisions in four * months after the declaration of peace. It is entirely possible that we will have to ask congress for some modifications of the law to provide a longer period of the unit* which will remain in Europe. A total of 5,325 officers and 125,515 men, General March said, have been specifically assigned for early return by General Pershing. Included in the additional units reported are ',426 officers and 29,381 men, fVlCk " ? ?A* 1 ?"V ?M*5bov vigatuAawiVUO UlCIlblUlieU being the field artiller brigades of the Eightieth (regulaz; and Ninetysecond (National Army) negro divisions and the Three Hundred and Forty-fifth and Three Hundred and Forty-sixth Infantry regiments from te Eighty-seventh (National Army) Division. The remainder of the list consists largely of motor repair units and auxiliary divisional troops. THE U. D. C.'S. The meeting of the U. D. C. .chapter will be held this (Tuesday) afternoon at 4 o'clock at the home of Mias Maggie Brooks instead of fct tty home of Mrs. T. G. White, M stated in our last iasae. i > .1