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y _ *. M - ' - ISSUED SEMI-WHEEL^ ' I l m grists sons, Pubitohers. j 314Hm'l8 jpeicsgaper,: Jfor th$ {promotion ojf th* {political, {Social, S0ricuttural and Commercial Interests of the {peo^I^ ; TER"^^coprE?vINciraANCE I ESTABLISHED 1855 YORK, 8. C. TUESDAY. JANUARY 28, 1919. ^078 | * . - .-w-_ ri.?- .h.?,l Iinmrnn ran wiir n ?r? iho. inner h??n nnnn?nt?H with tho rear- 1 PETAIN A MARSHAL Splendid French Soldier Gets Proper Recognition ; WILLED THEY SHALL NOT PASS This Is the Man Who Made and Sustained a Reputation as the Best Organizer in Franca Great Artillery Expert Prepared the Splendid Defense of Verdun. France has a new marshal, the third created since the war Petain the victor of Verdun, whose extraordinary organizing and tactical qualities, great personality, and gift of inspiring unlimited confidence in both officers and men. writes the London' correspondent of the Christian Science Monitor, ha^js twn s-enerallv recognized and appre elated during the course of the war. Henri Philippe Benonl Petaln is a grave, tail son of the Department of the Pas de Calais. He is a native of Gauchy a la Tour, near Bethune. His father was a husbandman, and nothing seemed specially to designate young Henri Petaln for a successful military career. He entered the school of St. Cyr in 18W, when France was still suffering from the wound inflicted upon her by the annexation of AlsaceLorraine. Some years later he received his commission as lieutenant in the Infantry, to which he has ever since remained faithful. For seven years he served as lieutenant In a reiment of Chasseurs Alpins, becoming captain of the same regiment In 1890. It is interesting to note that his chiefs did not appreciate his remarkable talents, and deliberately tried to retard v-1 ? ? A-wttTO wnv Neither can it be IIJ1U in v* v? ^ said of Petaln that he benefitted in any way from favoritism; he was only promoted to captain when his chiefs could no longer find any reason for delaying his advancement. In 1902 he became professor at the Superior Artillery school at Chalons, where he definitely broke away from the old official teaching, which the late war has so often proved defective. He defended his views as to the necessity for intense artillery preparation befor attempting any infantry attacks, with such conviction that his superiors, who were generally in favor of the traditional methods of warfare, seized the earliest opportunity of sending from their midst so embarrassing and convincing en opponent of their theories. Petain, however, soon had a splendid revenge. He was appointed professor of applied Infantry tactic^ at the Superior War school, and in this new capacity he won the admiration of his official-pupils, and also a reputation for original ideas quite opposed to the generally accepted official ? toot hod*. He -then returned to his former regiment, where he was warmly welcomed by his men and fellow-officers. War found him stationed at Arras, on the point of retiring with the rank of colonel. But now the wheel of Fortune re-1 solved rapidly, and in a few months time Marshal Petain had attained to; the highest rank in the military sphere. Promoted brigadier at the beginning of hostilities, he at once took part in the most severe fighting. He was at Charleroi, and a few weeks la ter, having been placed in command of a division of infantry, he succeeded in restoring discipline, energy, and optimism to those men who having been through the fighting at Charleroi and at Guise, were absolutely demoralized when he took them in hand. In the different attacks which he led during the battle of the Marne he applied his long-cherished theory as to the necessity for an intense artillery preparation, and in more than one c^se he gave his men an example of courage when he saw them lagging or falling back, placing himself unhesitatingly > at their head, under the most terrific shell fire. Is it surprising that the "poilus" should respect and love so intrepid a chief? They never fail to recognize his surperority, and are proud to proclaim their confidence in him on every possible occasion. "On peut y aller! C'est do l'ouvrage a Petain!" A simple phrase. Yet this confidence in the thoroughness with which their chief would have accomplished his "job" reflects the faith he has inspired in his troops, who secure in the knowledge that the powerful pounding of French guns had cleared the way, rushed toward the German lines with that incomparable dash and bravery which has always been characteristic of the soldiers of France . In recognition of the invaluable services he rendered during this flrsti phase of the war, the French govern-' ment named him commander of the Legion of honor. His work was mentioned in the official dispatches, which stated that he "organized with remarkable method the attack on the German position, and directed the same with extreme energy, obtaining a magnificent effort from the troops placed under his command." His successes in Artois will be remembered In the annals of the war. Under his extraordinary thorough and competent direction the thirty-third army corps captured all the reputed impregnable German lines and took 10,000 prisoners. Petain became major-general, and was commander-inchief of the eleventh army. He then ^ prepared the Champagne offense of October 1915, and the fine success which resulted from the practical application of his theories designated him Ka ths defender of Verdun, where at last he had a full opportunity of revealing his unique qualities both as a tactician and organizer. When he took command of the army of Verdun, at the request of General do Castelnau the enemy held the village of Douauinont. Petaln immediately grasped all the measures that were ? necessary to protect the fort and Verdun: he set to building a net-work of roads and trenches, and innumerable stations and depots, which, by assur" * oAmimimipntlnntj ing ana lavuiiamift contributed greatly to the help of the men In their heroic defense of the valiant city. For several months General Petaln was the very soul of the resistance of Verdun. Thanks to inconceivable sacrifices the enemy succeeded In gaining an advance which momentarily threatened the security of GENERAL P Before a gathering of the most br In chief of the French armies in the fl< by President Polncare In Metz. Presi behind are Marshal Joffre, Marshal Fo< Belgian army, a Portuguese general an that front Petain never lost courage, however, and from the very first he was confident in the success of his colossal enterprise. He called up all the artillery he could dispose of, and it is said that he placed cannon-wheel against cannon-wheel, thus forming a perfect barricade of shell fire and steel, through which the surging tide of German infantry was powerless to break. Then he uttered the now fam? s j ? at- a. ous words wnicn eiecirinea ms iruope; "Us ne passeront pas!" (They shall not pass!) They did not pass. When General Nival le took command of the "great army" of Verdun he achieved what Marshal Petain had prepared, recapturing the line of forts previously held by the Germans. Placed at the head of the armies of the center. General Petain took a most active part in the last offensive, and recaptured the reputed impregnable position of Moronvilliers. He was recalled from this post by M. Painleve, in order to become chief-of-staflf at the French War office, and to estab- ' lish a permanent Hnk between the government and the supreme military command. Marshal Petain was appointed commander-in-chief of the French armies early in 1918. He retained this post when Marshal Foeh assumed surpreme command of the Allied forces. With the liberation of Alsace-Lorraine accomplished, no one was better fitted than Marshal Petain to be placed at the head of the French troops who entered Mctz, foe. as.M. Clemenceau said in his proposal to make General Petain marshal of France: "At a time when the whole of France celebrates with a noble pride the definite victory of its arms, the govern mcnt of the republic makes it a point of honor to express the wishes of the army and of che country by conferring on General Petain, one of the mn.at glorious architects of victory, the dignity of marshal of France. To retrace the role played by Marshal Petain It would be necessary to trace the whole history of the war. He had already won fame by the splendid services he accomplished, when, placed at the head of the army at Verdun, he inflicted on the enemy a defeat which will ever remain famous, ?nd which marked the decline of the German military power. History will place General Petain in the very first rank of those great warriors who, in the course of the four years of this long and terrible war, have commanded the Allied armies. Led by chiefs of the highest valor, our , incomparable soldiers have imposed upon the enemy the armistice of Nov. 11, which consecrated the triumph of the Entente. They have just reached the Rhine. The moment therefore has I come to grant to General Petain the i supreme military reward which will honor him as chief as much as it will, ' *% 1 1 ~ -e r*??Anr?Vi nrmv" I gratiry tne wnoie ui mc Surely no praise is better deserved than that awarded by "Father Victory." as M. Clemenceau is lovingly called, to the great warrior whom his potlus have appropriately nicknamed "He who works well!" WARNS AGAINST BOLSHEVIKI. Official of Military Intelligence Testifies Before Senate Committee. Testifying before the senate committee investigating German propaganda, Arcihbald Stevenson of the military intelligence bureau, said Thursday that representatives of the Bolshevik movement already have organized soveits in the industrial centers of this country' and that their plans contemplate eventual seizure of the . government. Mr. Stevenson also said Qvidence exists that Germans and the United States have begun a post war propaganda with a view to experting an influence which would make the peace terms imposed on Germany less onerous. He called the committee's attention to a recent editorial In the New York Statts Zeltung, which he said endeavored to convey the idea that American soldiers overseas had come to regard the Germans in a light other than that of enemies. Leaders of the Bolshevik movement in this country. Mr. Stevenson testified^ included John Reed, who, he said, was the consul general at New York for the Russian soviet government, and Albert Rhys Williams of New York. Schools for the teaching of the Bolshevik doctrine to children have 1 Wtf *V?A JaoqI Arcflni own taittoiiaiicu uj hie . w zation, the witness said, and lecturers sent out. He told the committee that Hutchins Hapgood of New York was one of the lecturers and that Leonard D. Abbott also of New York was head of the school for the teaching of radicalism. Money for the Bolshevik propaganda work, Mr. Stevenson asserted, was sent from Russia. The element that is furthering radicalism here is the same element that is fighting American soldiers in Russia," said the witness, "They can be said to be the same for Reed and Wil-1 ETAIN MADE MARSHAL wmmmmmmmmmmmmmm lillant military lenders of the world, Ge ild. was awarded the baton of marshal, t lent Polncare Is shown presenting the :h, Field Marshal Sir Douglas Halg, Get d General Haller of the polish army. liams are their representatives In this country." Asked by Senator Overman for a remedy for Bolshevlklsm, Mr. Steven- i son said he would recommend deportation of alien agitators, punishment under a law speclfical^ drawn for ' that purpose of Americans who advo- i cated revolution, barring from the 1 country the ultra radical units and a * counter propaganda of education. In reply to a question from Senator i Overman as to whether Frederic C. 1 Howe, commissioner of immigration in New York held radical views, the 1 witness said he believed Mr. Howe's 1 opinions were "some what radical." 1 Investigation of the Statts Zeitung, Mr. Stevenson said, showed that the ? paper received $.15,000 from Dr. Ber- < riard Dernburg, the German propa- 1 gandist, after the beginning of the Eu- i ropeon war. A deposition by George 1 von Sckal, taken by the New York at- 1 torney general, he declared, showed 1 that in December, 1914, or January, < 1915, a cable message was sent to the 1 Berlin foreign office saying that the ' Statts Zeitung had to have approxi- I mately $500,000, "if it does not fall I into the hands of neople who are'' against Germany." The answer to the ' message, he asserted, was that the embassy here would be authorized to pay the money "if necessary." THE WAR AGAINST LIQUOR. I Story o" Dry Movement From It^ta* ception to Now. The International, world-wide move- j ment for prohibition, in which the j United States has played a leading part and which has now resulted ac- j tion by a sufficient number of states to make the nation dry, was brought rap- ' idly into the foreground of public affairs by the opening of the world war In 1914, The nations fighting for their existence and freedom of the world were compelled to bend every energy t to the task, and the waste occurring } through the liquor traffic was one of } the first evils to which attention was called. The most spectacular blow the traffic received in Europe was the action of the old government of Russia when at a stroke of his pen the czar prohibited the sale of vodka, the national drink. Other nations began to curb the liquor interests, notably France and England. Canada had been under local option since the passage of the Canadian temperance act in 1878, and during the war became practically dry. Prohibition history in the United States dates back to before the Civil ! war, when Keal Dow's dry law became ' effective in the state of Maine, in 1861, 1 later being written into the state's con- ' stitution. This first wave of prohibi tion spread to Massachusetts, Rhode,' Island and Vermont, but the two for- j' mer states soon repealed the laws that j1 they had passed. The reconstruction period in the 1 United States following the Civil war witnpssed a radd and wide growth in the liquor business. Immigration from 1 Germany was a factor, German beer being introduced and great breweries for its production in the United States i on a large scale being established. There was a corresponding effort by the moral forces of the country to offset this menace, and the established political parties having refused to incorporate in their platforms planks against the liquor trade, the Prohibition party came into being in 1869, i holding its first national convention in i 1872. This move was followed in 1874 i by the organization of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, the two '< organizations becoming the great early foes of the liquor interests. i The prohibition movement of more recent times in the United States has been carried on largely through the instrumentality of the Anti-Saloon ' league and its branches, the parent organization being formed in 1893 in Ohio. The policy of the Anti-Saloon league which proved most successful in ' combating the liquor interests was that > of lopping off branches of the tree , when it was felt that the greater result ' of state-wide prohibition could not be Immediately secured. By this policy local option laws were passed in many states, and cities, counties and townships were made dry, while the bigger fight was continued for a state-wide law. In the early '80s a prohibition wave spread over the middle west, Kansas, Iowa and the Dakotas passing prohibitory laws. Iowa's stajnd was annulled later by the passage of the notorious Mulct law, the effect of which was to -* A I'lroft r* i t i r> Q permit liquor iramc <n ?. ?? of the state, and in smaller communities where the population took no decided stand against it. The Dakotas also receded from their prohibition action. The next great move for prohibition came, strangely enough, from the south, where the liquor interests were considered well-intrenched. Early in the twentieth century southern states began to enact prohibition laws and OF FRANCE > jl L.-JWyy ^ I c hp v ? n. Henri Philippe Petain, commander 1 he highest honor bestowed by France, r baton to Marshal Petaln. Directly leral Pershing, General Gillian of the * t 9 their example was followed by those * of the Pacific northwest. So many states, in widely different r sections of the nation having passed r prohibition laws, the problems resulting, especially those of the shipment s of liquor into dry states through inter- 8 state commerce, brought the matter 1 before the national congress. In 1916 1 the supreme court upheld the Webb- F Kenyon law, which prohibited the d shipment of liquor into dry states through interstate commerce, and in b 1917 congress strengthened this law by d forbidding the spreading of liquor advertisements in dry territory through k the United States mails- e The first step toward a constitutional t' imcndment to make the entire nation p iry, was taken in 1914, when the n bouse of representatives passed an 11 imendment by a majority vote, but not p by the necessary two-thirds. Prohibl- 8 don sentiment continued to grow and a wax strong, mostly locally, until the jpening of the world war. In the fl [Jnited States there sprang up then a w Jtrong movement in favor of war time prohibition. e War-time prohibition demands then a brought matters to a head, the mem- a bers of congress becoming more and 11 nore favorable to an amendment end- 01 ng forever the liquor business witfiln h he whole country. On August 1, 1917, F he senate passed the now famous g Sheppard resolution, to submit the federal prohibition amendment to the b egislatures of the various states, by .a rote of 05 to 20,<4tie beet the MqWP?& ^ ?rests could do being to Include a pro- 14 rislon that the ratification by the states b ti ihould take place within seven years. rhe house of representatives adopted ^ he same resolution on December 17, a L917, at the following session of con- 0 fress by 282 to 128, and there has been b i steady procession of states taking 'avorable action upon this issue, since n Mississippi led off on January 9, 1918. a t< * si The Troubles of a Consul. Consuls s :he world over are likely to have their d lands full with certain types of their c fellow countrymen, or women, as in n he instance about to be described. It d iccurred when Capt A. F. Townshend c vas acting in his official capacity of <j British consul in a town in Asia Minor, ij 3nc day, he relates in "A military n onsul in Turkey," an English lady ar- b ivcd and was shown in to his office, tl She was invited to sit down, which she lid with caution, after subjecting the v :onsul to a careful scrutiny. n "You are the consul, I suppose?" tl I admitted that such was the case, c "Well, she went on, "my steamer T stays here for six hours, and I want to g ?o to Tarsus to see the place where g rsaini raui uvea; ana as 1 ucnuvc mc i, train has gone, I want a carriage: and yon must guarantee me that I shall be n back in time for my steamer; and I li want an interpreter who speaks Eng- 1 lish and Turkish, and?" n "Madam," I interrupted, "I must o really?" t "My name is Mrs. X.!" she snapped, li with a kind of don't dare-to-madam- o me air. "Very well," I replied, as meekly as s T could, but as you have not shown t me your passport, I did not know. If r I could find an interpreter who spoke p English and Turkish, I would buy him J for myself, so I fear you can't have n .hat, but I?" o "And you must arrange abount lunch 1 for me in Tarsus!" she put in. "But," I continued, desperately, "I e shall try to get you a carriage as soon t! as possible. Of course we can't call a n cab, you know, as if we were in Re- h gent street, but I'll send a kavass for n one." o 'Rather unsatisfactory!" she growl- h ed. s 'And I'll ask the Turkish governor g to send a policeman on the box, so that li you will be quite safe. I cannot, how- t: ever, guarantee what time you may t get back. It is sixteen miles to Tar- y 3US." "Well, I won't go at all," she de- C clared, as if she were inflicting a c crushing blow; "but I want to change v a bank of England five-pound note, and r as I don't know the rate of exchange, t T shall have to trust you to change it fnr m n " S "Really. Mrs. X." I said, goaded Into r retaliation, "you seem to have some f very mistaken ideas. Let me tell you that I am neither a cabproprietor, nor e a tourist-agent, nor yet a money- i changer, and I must ask you to change r your note elsewhere." 1 She sprang up as if she had sat t on a wasp's nest. * "Young man. I shall go straight hack t on board my steamer, and as I have * most influential friends in the foreign r office, you will hear of me again!" I "That will be a great pleasure,* I 1 murmured as the lady sailed out. s For days afterward I trembled at the ' arrival of every telegram: but the for- t eipn office, in Its leniency, must have * decided to pive me one more chance J before dismissal without a "character." , , c XT Things you get for nothing are J usually worth about what they cost. ' tJELUNtiS TO THE STATE. Veil Known Columbian Memorialize the General Assembly. Thornwell McMaster, a well know iltizen of Columbia, has memorialize he legislature on the subject of th ompletlon of the Columbia canal. H las had a letter printed and sent t ;ach member of the house and senat vhich, while rather unique, is quit orclble. He paints a picture of grea ndustrial development and improve onditions generally if the canal i ompleted and the water powers o he Congaree and other rivers in th enter of the state properly developec rhe letter follows: It is clearly up to the 1919 leglsla ure to do Its bit to rehabilitate, fro ts canals and open up its natural an indeveloped resources. Take back and start immediate de elopment of its navigation and powci he falls of Saluda and Broad river .t their formation of the Congarc< mown as. Columbia canal. Appointment of five or three com nissioners with power to act and do a ve did for 50 years up to 1887, and a Jew York state has done ever sine 815 build and own its canals an lavigation. Seven years ago a few men in cen ral South Carolina told the legisla ure that this company, claiming pos e8sion, were treating their leased iroperty as "a scrap of paper." The lenled and fought with strong, we laid staff of lawyers, politicians an lewspapers. We always said to th egislature's committees: Make ther how their books. A few days ago th upreme court ordered them to sho\ heir books. You tylll now see tha hey have used your property as i iawn to sell the bonds of five subsi iary companiesRight here I will say that I don' elieve God In his most wise provl ence ever intended that such essentia ir reaching nature gifts to all man ind, such as navigation and hydro lectric power, fall of water, was eve t> be turned over to a few men as i rivate franchise. The weakness of hu rnn nature will every time produo lie "Iiet's get rich quick," "damn th ublic," capitalize and sell bonds an< tock. We can sell a million above th ctual Investment and get out befor lie innocent purchaser on the street nds out that some one has sold him i watered stock or bond. Since they sold the bonds this prop rty was allowed to go to ruin. The; re out. They hav^ made their Jaci nd don't give a damn for South Caro na. Take it back immediately. Yoi an.release in the near future 65,00i orse power hydro-electric power 'ive thousand dollars' worth of coa oes to waste every 24 hours at th sot of the hill west of your capito uilding. It is the opening of navigation t aluda and especially Broad river val ?ys. Millions of tons of the only an< est granite on all water transporta on to sea on South Atlantic coast ?thcr ro<jk up that river are coppe nd red hemltate Iron (Iron pyrites res and others. All water rate to Co imbia. All water rate plus shor R. rate to Piedmont. The govern lent wants granite in million ton lot t. Charleston now to develop Charles >n harbor- If you develop thee hoals, somebody, either the Unitei tates or the state or Charleston, wil evelop the Santee-Cooper. It make olumbla and Charleston 75 mile earer by water. Liberates 35,000 hy ro-electric horsepower in 30 miles o Charleston. Destroy or circumven elta at mouth of Santee river. Make nmedlately available by bettering it avigation two million acres of th est standing timber on earth, neares tie devastated war zone. mi._ tPnncnppp and Sante lilt? TT aici CV| WiiOM.vv ? alleys hold the largest, most In de land, great quantity of standing li he world nearest the war zone. Yoi an't log it or ship it out by railroad 'he Broad and Saluda rivers hold th reatest in quantity and quality o ranite on all water transportation 01 he Atlantic coast. It is easily within your power b lake our great valley of South Caro ina equal to thp Rhone of France 'he Rhone river has only one-fourtl lore water than the Santee. The cit f Lyons is 240 miles from the Medi erranean ocean, Columbia 218 to At mtic. France in last five years previ us to the war cut a canal 30 miles iP stream on Rhone over into Mar ailes harbor so as to circumvent th roublesome delta at the mouth of th iver. A cotton mill in Lyons, France ovH nnd writes a bill of lading to Ri aneiro, Brazil, cheaper on a bale o nanufactured cloth than Spartanbur; r Greenville pays for freight to Ne\ fork or Norfolk. Appoint a practical commissior lected by house and senate from prac leal men?not all lawyers; they hav eed of lawyers, let the commissioi lire them. But you must have a com nission that recognizes that there ar ther laws in nature's great court tousc to appeal to instead of writini tatutes. There is the law of credil ravity, falls of water, navigation and ast but not least, law of self-prescrva Ion, the first law of nature, to appea now quickly. The world is beggini ou to "come across-" The development of central Sout! .'arolina?the Columbia canal is th enter key wedge. You must tap tha i-edge with a legislative sledge ham aer blow and this knotty log will star o split All of the Irrigating farming propo winns arc below Columbia. This wil nake available thousands of the mos ertile land on the globe. The advent of the caterpillar tractoi rovernment weather reports and farm ng companies with proper capita ight now have made the abandone and on these rivers (opened befor he Civil war) a bright, profitable gam >le, both for stock and crops, withou he old dams being rebuilt. Wha vould they be if dams were built? An iow you can build dams, move eart )er cubic yard, by machinery, drag >ans, scrapers, etc., cheaper than a iny other time in the world's historj These lands now are ratca tor iuxe ind sell for less than any lands i Vmerica except the arid alkali lands c Arizona and Nevada. Don't deny or turn away these gre.n ipportunltles for work, employment c our poor soldier and emigrant return ng from this heart-racking war, de manaing neius to iuuur m. wuc uiem a chance. >g I say again, humanity demands thai the legislature get busy. "Go ovei n the top," boys. d ' 1 c WITH THE MOTOR TRUCKS. e 0 Monotony Hangs Heavy on the Boys e With Nothing to Do. (. Correspondence of The Yorkville Enquirer, it Rochelle, France, December 29 ] d am still located near the oity of Ros chelle, with very little to do except n yearn for the time when I can get back c to work in The Bnquirer office. 1. I used to think that Yorkville was IIlIKmy UUll tuiu UICSUIUC cai-c^i mreu - I was at work setting type or feeding t a press, or revising the mailing list, 01 d something like that; but I would be entirely content now to swap what 1 - have for Yorkville and give some boot, r. The weather here now is about what a we have at home in April, only a little more so. We have had one clear day here in a month. The balance of the time it has been rain and mud, and 1 8 have a plenty of it 8 There is very little to write about e here. I might give you a few pages d about the city of Rochelle, about the Huguenots, the long siege by Cardinal Richelieu, as well as present condl" tlons; but I cannot bring myself to copying history which is as available to the average reader as it is to me, y and I do not see anything in the old " city that seems to be of more than d passing interest e As to the people around here, there n is nothing good to be said. They are e dirty, filthy and about as Immoral as v so many pigs. No, I am not exagger* ating. The conditions are simply hora rible. If we had such a community anywhere in York county, the grand jury would never have an opportunity 1 to act upon it The people would see it first and clean it out. I wont try to 1 give Jrou details, in the first place because, I do not want to and in the second place, you would not print them r because they are not fit to print 1 It is rumored about the camp that we are going to move in about a month. ? Ono atnrv ia fViaf ten aro crnlnc tn ho sent to Belgium and another Is that we are going to be sent back to the e States. I hope the last story Is true; but I am not banking on it, because 8 we have nothing definite. Of course I would like to go to Belgium anywhere to get away from this place, even though the next place may be no better; but I woul<j rather go back home than anywhere else. Christmas was like Sunday over Q here. We had nothing to do, and plenty to eat good things that is about iaiL The Motor Truck organization has j played a big part In the war. It was the motor trucks that got the marines o to Chateau Thierry; It was the motor trucks that helped push the Oermans j north from Verdun, and It was the motor trucks that made possible the winding up of the little ball of yarn In the r St. Mihiel sector. Also it was the mo. tor trucks that largely contributed to the success of the work of the Thirtit <;Jh and Eighty-first divisions. Of course, you know it was the soldiers first, those brave, invincible men, who s went right on after the Germans and cleaned them up; but it was the motor triloba that hrnueht ud the ammu j nition, artillery, supplies, etc., without g which little could be accomplished. s But please do not understand that I am entitled to any glory. I made one I long trip of about four hundred miles, t before the armistice was signed; but s after that the flu got me and although s I am now all right, I have not done a e great deal of driving since up to this t time. I have not been hunting any glory or anything like that. I got into e this thing because Gen. Crowder had my number, and the local board sent n me forward. I wanted to go because I j knew America needed every man she I had, and that those who held back e could not be looked upon as men. f From the day I went to Clemson I have been trying to carry out every order and discharge every duty to the best of 0 my ability, and I am trying 10 ao me . same thing now. If It had been my ,. lot to drive a truck in among the h bursting shells, my truck, I think, y would have gone there and kept going . until a shell got us both, or a bullet . got me- And while I still stand ready . to do everything I can as long as I am it needed, or until I am discharged the . authorities above, saying when, still I e don't think you are going to blame me e for saying I would rather be back >, home. o Lewis M. Grist. f -- g The Wrong Ship. Through a mlsv iaken idea that she was a transport returning with American troops from ' France, the steamship Chicago, of the " French line, received a remarkable e and unexpected welcome in port yes11 terday afternoon. The police boat ser" enaded the passenger steamship with e her siren and the fire boat Thomas " Willett accompanied her up stream to * her pier, at the foot of West Fifteenth ' street, spouting: forth gTeat geysers of ' river water for the amusement and, incidentally, to the amazement, of the 1 258 passengers aboard, none of whom s knew what the fun was about. Just who started the reception to the Chicago, on board of which were p no more Americans than* have arrived * regularly on board each French line steamship in the course of transatlan1 tic travel during the war, no one could say. ~ The din of the whistle blowing, which became general after the patrol 1 began her welcoming shriek, caused a huge crowd to gather at the French ' line pier, which cheered each passenger as he came out of the main en^ trance, but found no troops to extend ( their greetings to. Cap. Brevet, the 0 Chicago's commander, asked what the demonstration had meant as he t stepped ashore, and enjoyed the mistake when he was told how his ves^ sel had been mistaken for a troop ship. New York Herald. it * * ' r. Saved. Little Harold, having climb(S ed to the pinnacle of the roof of a very n steep shed, lost his footing and began >f to slide with terrifying swiftness toward that point where the roof swept it gracefully off into shape. >f "O Lord, save me!" he prayed. "O i- Lord, save me! O Lord! "Never s- mind. I've caught on a nail!" imjlulKo ur int dau ; t , n Men of Camp Sevier Who Serve to c the Last J I ABOUT QUARTERMASTER PERSONNEL J V [ Not Much Excitemont nor a Groat Deal of Glory in Looking After Equipment ?i Q....I!... D.i LI. -AL.I iL. *1 ?*nu ouppiics; dux ncvonnciaBB xne ti Work Has to be Done. , Camp Sevier, January 25.?Cheer- ? ! fully continuing to do their bit at 1 ; Camp Sevier although the war is end. ed, even as they have done through p , all the struggle, with never a chance a ; to get In the limelight and the honor a of having gone over the top and at 'em ; never coming to then, this article will , have to do with the men of the Quart- % r ermaster Carps and other camp or- n , ganizatlons who have been In Camp 1 Sevier and Greenville longer than any " other soldiers. They are deserving of ^ praise for theirs', although devoid of i the glamour and glitter of the battle- f , field has been and continues to be a ^ most important work, requiring Intel. ligence of the highest sort and a pa, tlence and perseverance that lo to be a , found only in soldiers and all men a of the very highest type. They have ^ i had In charge the great work of pro! viding for the welfare and comfort of the soldiers of the various divisions , who have come to Camp Sevier to a , train, and who after their period of i training have gone across to put the ,? fear of God and Democracy into the n Hun. Any thinking man, though, will ^ readily admit that the fellows who . were not permitted to go because they had to provide for those who did, have p had just as great although not so ** nrl/\o(/\??n n r\n ( rt V> n irl A f f Ka giui tuuo u ^ai i tn me v icwi j \jl viiv Allies. / a Talk to the average officer or enlist- ? ed man of the Quartermaster Corps c about the war and the part he played ? and he will admit, "yes, I stayed here at home or rather in this camp. Some- a body had to stay and because of my peculiar training in certain lines q it was decreed that I should stay. I 91 had a part I guess; but to my way of ? thinking it was a poor part and I'll c never get over the fact that I didn't get to go over and see the whole . show." There is not the slightest doubt but " what the great majority of them and there are more than a thousand in all, did want to go and made effort to go ^ at one time or another during the J* past seventeen moi/ths. Many were dis qualified because of physical disability; many who were fit were kept from Jf going over because their service could r ba utilized to better advantage on this side. There is nothing yellow about w the men of the Quartermaster Corps with the exception of their hat cords. ? Most of them, had they had their * choice would far prefer the line to the i ' work in which they are engaged. It j" is easier. It does not carry such great j 81 responsibility. It does not require j such painstaking, patient effort. But | somebody has to do the Q. M. work. bl It is no easy matter to provide for F the clothes and feeding of 30,000 men , k daily. It is not the easiest job in the 8-1 world to look after the transportation 8t of those who are ordered away on a moment's notice. There are easier ls tasks than taking care of thousands of horses and mules and wagons and n other property of like nature that is w absolutely essential to the conduct of a great military organization. Many jobs are easier than that of w taking care of the cast off shoes and clothes of these men, their bedding, worn-out military property of every description which still has some financial value. The men of the Q. M. have * " - * /Jana tKlO OTArlf done aii ui uus, uaic uuuc v?? ...... thoroughly and well. ' But all this is by way of explana- ^ tlon of the necessity for a quarter- ^ master corps at Camp Sevier and in 9' explanation of why it is that hundreds 8 although they have been stationed n here for eighteen months or more 0 didn't get a chance to have hand to h hund engagements with Frits. There n are several branches of this quarter- a master corps and In every branch men ** who have been here so long that they a almost feel like old residents of the city and section. The commanding officer of the u Quartermaster Corps for the past sev- ? en months has been Major D. H. Cotter. who was tranferred this week to gj Camp Gordon, Atlanta, Ga. Major Cotter was of the regular army and P during the past quarter of a century ? had seen service in every branch of the military. He is succeeded by Maj. ^ Ocea L. Ferris who has also seen much g sendee. The'constructing quartermas- ' ter, Major Cooper, is another old resident of Camp Sevier who has seen the d camp grow from a comparatively Q small station to one of the largest of j the tented camps in the entire country. h In point of sendee in the quartermaster corps so far as Camp Sevier is con- ' cerned one of the oldest is Major F. J. p Hanabergh, who came here eighteen B months ago. Mayor Hanabergh is an old regular army man who at the outbreak of the World War was a non p commissioned officer of the regular ^ establishment. Major Hanabergh was w promoted to his majority since he came ci here and for a number of months was tj camp executive officer. Several weeks j, ago the officer had the misfortune to , be the victim of an automobile acci- ^ dent and is now confined to the Base n hospital on account of his Injuries. ^ Capt. H. V. Benewa in charge of the Kmnnh nf the Quarter- c, lOUUOIOVCUVV Mi v. - ? ? master Corps has seen eighteen months b service at Camp Sevier. A number of p nis assistants, especially his non com- R) missioned officers have also been rfta- n tioned in this camp more than a year. e Among them is Quartermaster Ser- t< geant Senior Grade Jack Weiner who f] came to Sevier at a time when the o pretty camp site was hardly more than a growth of briars and brambles, interspersed here and there with a tall o pine or ?oak. Sergeant First Class si Tnomas Duncn ui mc ouuoioivuw branch is also another Camp Sevier n old timer. He too, has had about a eighteen months service here and in " that time has Issued thousands and i< thousands of rations. Capt H. C. Kllber, camp property h .officer has been stationed at Camp Se- g vter about ten months. The captain b ilar establishment and like Major H&abergh was a non commissioned ofIcer at the outbreak of the wai with lermany. Lieut. Lewis who is under he camp property owner Is also anoher of the veterans of Camp Sevier, le came here early in the fall of 1917 nd has received his commission as a leutenant since coming into the ser-" Ice here. Lieut. I. M. Adams of the Finance ranch of the Quartermaster Corps i as been stationed at Camp Sevier for he past seventeen months. His has een and is a most strenuous work and ne requiring the utmost care and cauIon. First Lieut. L. R. Collins who is at ' resent camp salvage officer has been ^ resident at Camp Sevier for the post eventeen months and in that time , tie served in various capacities. Capt. ^ [. H. Horner, recently relieved as Sal- j age officer has been in Sevier for lore than a year. Capt. J. H. Slayon, transportation officer has seen lore than one'year's service at Camp * levier as have Lieutenants EJdmur.d u Turner and Louis J. Cauthen of he Utilities division, which until a J ew months ago was a branch of he Q. M. At the Remount station where thous- \ nds of animals are looked after, are . number of men, especially among he enlisted personnel who have been i n this camp from twelve to sixteen , lonths. -J First Lieut. T. D. Lamp who serves | t present as executive officer and as- j Lstant to the camp supply officer is one f the oldest of the old timers. Seventeen 1 lonths have come and gone since he -as ordered to Camp' Sevier to assist i the organization of this camp and 1 that time he has held numerous osltlons of responsibility. He was for uite a while personnel officer of the epot unit of the quartermaster corps nd his present position of trust and no which requires judgment and disretlon and experience is a testimonial f the high regard in which he is held y the war department as an officer nd a man. There are many officers in the uartcrmastor corps whose period of &rvice here extends over a number f months and there are numerous non ommiasioned officers and privates ho have served eighteen months, ergeant First Class David H. Wil- t amson is one of the oldest non corailssioned officers in point of service, ergeant R B. Clements has se?n Ighteen . months here, having come ith the Charleston light dragoon deartment Others are Sergeant Stanty Taylor, David N. Lonon, Authur McCloskey, S&xnan Gross, Benimin Sheffler, W. M. Hunt, Loyd B. rince, Dixie D. Smith, Elton T. Hugh- y s, Max. H. -ftohde, William Nathanon. These rums with scores and scores f others in camp organisations have ' erved and have served long and faithally. They still serve. They wear or ither* are entitled to wear silver tripes instead of the gold. But It Is irough no fault of theirs. In the fujre they will have no tales to tell of ELttles in which they were engaged in ranee, of weeks ig the trenches, of >ng forced marches, of life over there mid shot and shell. But they have the Ltlsfaction of honorable service welj^^i one and when the discharge .of each writ with "service honest and faithll" upon it, the' folks back In their ?pective homes will have a right and ill be just as proud of them as their rothers and cousins and friends and iquaintances who did the actual hipping of the Hun. Jas. D. Grist. MEAT OF THE WHALE - 1 .1 ; is Now tsieemca ? v, ..... Value. When a whale-meat luncheon was Iven In the spring in the Museum of 'atural History, the people of the. aciflc Coast decided that the diet had jfflciently strong scientific backing to ive it a trial. Now reports to the luseum, as cited in the current issue f the Journal, show the whale meat as been placed on regular sale In the lunlclpal markets of Portland, Ore., nd that Its use has been energetically romoted In Seattle, San Francisco nd other coast cities. All whaling factories on the coast, s a result, are becoming equipped to tillze the* meat for food, either in caned form or as a cold storage product, 'he Victoria Whaling Company has lace& the entire output of one cold tor age plant, and fresh orders for tne roduct of piling up rapidly. It Is robable that the demand on the Pa* lflc coast will be so great that little of h.c meat will be sent to eastern cities he British Government also is considrlng the use of whale meat, and has ddressod Inquiries to the museum reuardlng It Althoigh it Is a strange let for Americans, its use is not new Isewhere. Inhabitants of the Scottish slands have used it for centuries, as ave the Japaneco. As early as in 161 whales' tongues were an importnt article of commerce in the Basque rovinces of Gascony, on the Bay of Iscay. In Japan the meat is eaten either esh or canned, a single whale suplying, according to the records, as iuch as 80,000 pounds. The seven rhaling stations on the American FaIflc Coast, with tho one on the Atlanic side of the continent, have a comined summer catch of about 1,000 rhales, making available for distribuon in America a yearly supply of early 50,000,000 pounds of palatable nd nourishing food. The meat is darker colored and Dmewhat coarser grained than boaf, ut has no Ashy flavor, and when proerly cooked it tastes .much like venl>n. An analysis of the canned meat jcently made by the bureau of flahries in Washington showed Its pro?ln value to be 34 per cent, as against rom 13 to 14 per cent. In beef, mutton . r pork. Guess Their Country. Two couples f foreign birth and habit had, after Ix months' travel In America before tie war, returned home. One of the lale members of the quartet was thus ccostefl by a friend the next day: Did you have a good time in AmerTo which was made the character iljminattng reply: "Yes, but our wives ot awfully tired of those upper erths." ' - ??*" '- ^ &? ,iir?"ri Tri':w?