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y.;, -^V . u m. grists sons, pubiMbers.! % Jfamits Uwrajagti; i ^or (h? promotion of fh? {political, ^oqial, ^grieultura! and (Tommfi;tial Interests oj tft< |(ojt<. j ter",^50c^reiivinc^ance RS^ARt,ISHED1855 YORK, S. C., TUESDAY, MAY 2Q, 1919. JSTO. 40 SALVATION ARMY FACTS Organization that Makes Good Use ot Help. NEEDS A FUND OF $13,000,000 What the Army Did In War, What It Is Doing in Peace and Why It Needs Money to Help in Its Great Work. By Elizabeth Taylor. The people of the south are once more called upon to give. This time it is for one of the most worthy of all causes the Salvation army Home Service Fund. , When war was declared the Salva- , tlon Army workers went over seas with our boys and down into the trenches into the very jaws of death. They crossed the sea with our boys , with never a thought of personal Injury never dreaming of the wave of popularity or publicity they would get for this humble Christian service; they had only one desire and that was to serve our boys when they most needed friends. They spent much of the nfoney that it had taken them many years to collect in small change spent it ungrudgingly because they saw that our boys needed it All they asKeu in return wu? tutu. they be allowed by their every day examples to teach the Christianity our Savior taught while on earth. ( Many soldiers tell of the wonderful , work the Salvation Army has done , overseas. To me there is nothing ( unusual about the work but it is the same kind of work and service the Sal- , ration Army has always given here at home at our very doors. It has taken the stories told by the returning , soldiers who have come to know the Salvation Army to bring about the , wave of popularity for the Salvation , Army, but the army has always worked and served as they are now serving. , It reaches a class of people that , no other religious organization can or , attempts to reach. The men and , women that are too ragged and miserable to attend the services at our , churches they reach the poverty , that hides and shrinks in the by-ways , of life. A man or woman can never fall so low, but that this army of earnest workers stretch out a helping hand to them. Every man, woman and child in America should contribute to , this Home Service funu because there is not a corner in our beloved land, however remote, that does not receive ( direct benefit from the Salvation \ Army, for fifty per cent of the popu- ( lation of the cities is made up of people that come from small towns and from those remote sections and ninety , per cent of the boys and girls that ap- \ peal to the Salvation Army for assis- j tance are those who have come to the large cities and find themselves un- '< etn?tl to the struggle for existence. 1 The Salvation Army conducts Rescue Homes, Day Nurseries, Homes for the helpless and aged and blind, lodging houses for the men and worn- <, en that are unable to pay and free , clinics it extends its service every- : where that misery and poverty exists, i Soldiers Tell of Overseas Work. The soldiers that are returning from i France after their hard struggle have nothing but words of praise for the I Salvation Army, and from the lips of ! * a soldier now at Camp Gordon comes a story of a frail Salvation Army lassie that defied the shot and shell of the Hun and carried him three miles to a first aid station and saved his life 1 that man is Sergeant James McCoy of Co. E 17th Infantry. Sergeant McCoy is the proud possessor of the Croix de Guerre, and the famous Belgium medal for bravery was among the first Americans to join the Allies in the greatest world war. "It was on my twenty-third birthday, August 5, 1918, in the famous Argonne Forest that I received five machine gun bullets in my legs as a sort of a birthday present from the "Hun," 6ays Sergeant McCoy, of Camp Gordon, Atlanta, Ga., as he extolled the Salvation Army abroad. "The rain of bullets from the machine gun brought me to the ground with hundreds of r my comrades. In spite of the pain, I crawled along, and after making two miles towards a first aid station I fell in a faint and lay there with shot and shell bursting around me. I will never know who found me, but when I awakened I was looking into the eyes of a frail Salvation Army lassie, who had bound my wounds to check the flow of blood and who was bathing my face bringing me back to consciousness. "It was after midnight, and the only light around us came from the bursting bombs and the hand grenades which were being hurled by one of the strongest battalions of the German ^ crown prince. She bade me have courage and said that she would carry me to the nearest first aid station, which was three miles away. She unloosened my equipment and carried me in a military fashion straight out over that perilous journey three miles away. Time and again she stopped to regain wh an h fa oh time after she was ready to go on she would bathe my face and make me as comfortable as possible. How long it took her to bring; me through that shot ridden Innd I will never know, for I afterwards learned that 1 fainted several times during the journey. It was daylight when the lassie carried me to the first aid station and after she had placed me in the hands of my sturdy comrades she sank to the ground unconscious.'' This is only one of the many things that I know of concerning the Salvation Army and their work with the American troops abroad. They are the greatest friends we have, and. if the American public can only be told of ten per cent of their heroic deeds in No Man's Land the appropriation 'of $13,000,000, asked for by the Salvation Army, will be but a drop in the bucket of the funds actually received. Brothers, sisters, wives and sweethearts of the American soldiers should always love and support the Salvation Army, for they owe that wonderful organization a debt of gratitude, for by its example of humble Christian ser' vice it has implanted in the hearts of the world through her fighting men. a renewed faith in Christ and the seeds it has sown in No Man's Land and at the training camps, which will spring up and bear fruit that will give the world the first real taste of democracy. Heroes Explain Why. In the following words Private Frank Ivy, of Goldsboro, N. C sums up what he has seen of the work of the Salvation Army abroad. Private Ivy, who was a member of Company X, 167th Infantry, was severely wounded in the early Lattles of Soissons. While he lay on his cot at Fort Mcpherson hospital, waiting time to heal the wounds inflicted by the Huns, he was at his happiest period, as he discussed the work of the Salvation Army, both here and abroad. When he learned of the coming drive in May for additional funds for oMat oonao the wnuridod hero said: "I hope I am out by that time, and. If I am not, there are thousands who would go far and wide to tell the people of this country just what the Salvation Army stands for, what it did for its boys under shell fire, in the hospitals, and, in fact, everywhere we went, the Salvation Army worker was bound to be there. This is no advertising campaign, for all the boys will have to do is to tell the truth of this great work and the great American public will do the rest." Sergeant George Henderson, of Jacksonville, Fla., who was wounded at Chateau Thierry, is following the example of Private Cook and organizing the discharged soldiers of Florida to put over the Salvation Army drive in his home state, as the Salva tion Army so aDiy assisiea 10 pui over drive after drive in the cruelest days of the great war. "We doughboys know how to help, and we are going to do it," said Serjeant Henderson. "The Salvation Army cared not for shot or shell, for their only thought was to aid others Ln spite of the personal risk to themselves. They start d in the war with us at our training camps in America uui remained with us until we put the Hun back on his ground and started him on the greatest retreat that a losing arrny was ever forced to make. .America will never know the gratitude she owes to the Salvation Army and the number of lives that this little sturdy band of workers saved by their fearless action in the greatest of all fights." Hundreds of statements have come to our office from those who knew of the Salvation Army's work in the trenches. There will be no vital change in the administration of the work. The Tambourine Girl will no longer circulate among us, however, except at devo ional services. The big drive is for funds to replace this smiling lassie and release her from collecting small change to devote her entire time to a work of mercy. The people of America will be asked to contribute once each year instead of all the year round to the Salvation Army and perpetuate its work. Some of the most, prominent men in the south will tour this section of the country in the interest of the drive. Judge J. S. Reynolds, formerly solicitor general of the Augusta circuit and one of the best known lawyers in the south, is chairinaan of the speaker committee. He has gathered about him men who have made good in their respective lines and who will speak in behalf of the Salvation Army drive. Among the prominent speakers who will tour the south are: Judge Marcus Beck, of Georgia: Dr. S. R. Belk, Walter P. Andrews of Atlanta, Clifford Walker, attorney general for Ceorgia, Rev. James Horton, C. Murphy Candler, Georgia railroad commissioner, Hooper Alexander, district Attorney, and many others. The Salvation Army is not basing its plea for funds on its war record. It has behind it in America forty years of work as thoroughly and conscientiously rendered as was the work of the army lads and lassies in the trenches and on the battlefields of I*Yance. I know the people of America will help. Transferring Opinions. Gideon Welles was called from the editorship of a country newspaper to be secretary of the navy in the cabinet of President Lincoln. In the parlance of tl:e day ho "made good." His career in the public service is often cited in a comparative way when Josephus Daniels is mentioned, for Mr. Daniels, like his illustrious predecessor, was a country editor before he undertook affairs of state. Once upon a time Mr- Welles took his pen in hand to give his opinion of Edwin M. Stanton, the Lincoln secretary of war. This is what he wrote: "He is by nature a sensationalist and has from the llrst been filled with panics and alarm. He is impulsive and not administrative, has quickness, often rashness, when he has nothing to apprehend; he is more violent than vigorous; more demonstrative than discriminating; more vaini than wise; is rude, arrogant and domineering toward those in subordinate positions, if they will permit the rudeness; but a sycophant and dissembler in deport ment and language with those he fears." Now Louis Seibold of the N'ew York World takes occasion to place upon the shoulders of the hapless Burleson the blame for everything that has happened in any way to discredit the administration. It blames him for advising the president to appeal for a Democratic congress, regarded by so many as a faux pas and to cap the climax says he is to blame for the prohibition amendment. Be it sadly admitted, Burleson is the handiest goat that could be found browsing on the White House lawn. Berkshire Eagle. When a Man is a Failure. The mere fact that a man has failed In business or other undertakings does not mean very much unless we know what he did after his failure. It's the man behind the failure that will tell results whether it is the end of the man or just the beginning. If he is made of the stuff that wins, he will come back. No man is a failure until he loses heart and gives up trying. There is no such thing as failure in the man who sets his teeth and refuses to quit. Office Economist. - GERMANY OF TODAY What the Treaty Makers Have Done to the Empire. DEPRIVED OF MUCH TERRITORY The Germans Expected to Lose Only Alsace and Lorraine; But as Things Now Stand She Will Lose Other Acquisitions That Were of Great Importance to Her Powers. In connection with the accompany. J k.. *k/v lng map, prepaxcu uy m? nauunai Geographic Society, showing the territorial losses of Germany, as indicated in the official summary of the peace treaty and in the subsequent official statement indicating the boundary delimitations, the Society has issued a lum I TzH= Si Mm Anpwtrrp "Vj t s(. I IF R A I / ' /SWIT2 f Lost Areas Include Alsace and Posen, Silesia and West Prussia, 27,6* International Areas Include Dai by the League of Nations pending a Plebiscites Parts of SchleswU sia, 5,785 miles. bulletin explaining the extent, importance and peoples of the areas Germany must forfeit. This bulletin states: "To visualize more clearly what Germany lost in territory take a map of the United States and from the area of +V? o + r\f MinliiD'Qn This 1CAOO kiiuv v*. may be done, roughly, by eliminating the panhandle and that western rectangle beyond the Rio Grande, which has El Paso in the northern corner. The result will be an area approximately the size of the continental German Empire before the armistice was signed. "From this area Germany loses outright her ill-gotten Alsace-Lorraine, parts of Silesia, Posen, and West Prussia, the Danzig area, Eupen and Malmedy. This aggregate loss in territory is about equivalent to the area of the state of Maine"But that is not all. In addition there are areas in which a plebiscite is to be taken. Their total extent is about equivalent to the area of the state of New Hampshire. They include the southeastern third of East Prusoia nnrt of Srhleswier. and the Saar Valley. Even before the war it Is likely that a plebiscite would have found strong anti-German support in each of these areas. After the war, when the choice is between tax-burdened Germany and some other power there would seem to be little doubt but that the Saar regions will prefer France, Schleswig will revert to Denmark, and the East Prussian area to Poland. "Of course these comparisons do not mark the complete losses of Germany, for they do not take into account the colonies which are taken from her. Henceforth other nations, as mandatories, will administer Kamerun, Togoland, German Southwest and German East Africa, Tsingtau, German NewGuinea, the Carolines and the Marshall Island, Samoa and Pleasant Island. "If you are more familiar with eastern states than with Texas, it may make the comparison more vivid to note that the post-war Germany will find her place under the sun to be about equal to the territory comprised in the New England States plus New York and Pennsylvania, or that contained in New England and Oregon. "On her pre-war area equal to Texas minus Michigan, orTexus minus all the New England States except Connecticut, Germany supported some seventy million peoples, nearly two thirds the total population of the United States of America. How much of this population is removed from her it is difficult to say because the splitting of territory does not correspond to units of census measurement. "But it is possible to arrive at a fairly accurate estimate of her reduced population. For Germany's citizens were distributed well over her former emnire. and countless small cities and towns, and a dense rural population, rather than numerous large cities, made her average density of population. "This average density was about 300 to the square mile in 1914, and the total number of square miles either lost outright or subject to plebiscites at some future date approaches 45,000 square miles. Therefore it is no* far from the mark to estimate that Germany loses a number of persons equivalent to the combined population of New York State and Massachusetts, ineluding those giant New World cities, New York and Boston. "Giievous as may have been the parting to her, Germany expected to lose Alsace and Lorraine if she lost the W wer. But to pay for her capital crimes against civilization with the Saar Valley area must seem a heavy price- For in that region, not so large as Rhode ^ Island, were contained coal fields rated among the richest in Europe. In en this historic area of natural bounty the earth has bourne grapes for rare old wines since Roman days. Then the ^ surface was pierced for its yield of cj<i black treasure, though wooded hills, gw crowned with ancient abbeys and cas- tu) ties, still look down on busy factories and bustling towns. It was the eastern ^ Pennsylvania of Germany only with the Pittsburgh left out for Saarbruck- ^ en, metropolis of the area, has only for about 30,000 population. ln "Not only was the Saar coal of in- sio ciusiriai imporxanco xo liermany, uui some of it was diverted to Italy and ma ^ tfli iiiw J ) J i, EB. M A A l?jn/ "T* * Or. ^ ^'L,?nz ?\Frankfaft . j**" \ \\ \ 5:? i \ C! y S^tuttgoM Estrassburg ' 0 J $($ Munich * em \ iEBUMP-7/ Lorraine, 5,600 square miles, restored to F} 16 square miles, awarded to Poland, lzig, 729 square miles and Saar Basin, 731 plebicite fifteen years hence. ; 2,787 square miles (three successive plffr Switzerland, a sort of 'underground of propaganda' against the day when jt Germany should need their support. W8 Danzig has been a port of major im- iuH portance since the days when it was tfi< one of four principal centers of the ^ Hanseatic League. Not far inland Is orj Marienburg, once the capital of the ^ Teutonic Order of Knights. Formerly or the grain of fertile Silesia and Poland poured through Danzig, but more recently the city has been a center for ship building and manufacture of an munitions. "Ever since the armistice Germany tjo has carried on an assiduous propagan- ^ da to keep from losing her rich Posen , and Silesian mining districts. Zinc iron and potash, the very life blood of hc, her vaunted industrial organism, came from the area adjoining Poland which m? Germany now is called upon to forfeit to that newly created nation so long debarred from this rightful inheritance. ^ Hard coal also came from this region un in considerable quantity. jjy "By granting a plebiscite to Schle- aw swig (which is to be taken successively ha In three areas as indicated on the ity map) Germany is likely to lose a province which has not the industrial im- lrc portance of the Saar or Silesian dis- j mc tricts, but which has a naval vaiue re- i lating to both the North and Baltic! no seas. Moreover Germany prized this!- < region because it was so hard to ac- J ^ai quire- No Balkan problem is more ^ complex, nor did the Alsace-Lorraine C0] issue cause more irritation than did js the Schleswig-Holstein question in the gul years gone by. One historian remark- to ed that only three men ever under- tj1( stood the points at issue and one was At dead, another insane and a third had jnj forgotten what it was all about." in^ 1 " wo Dr. J. H. Nanzetta, a well known sr< Indian doctor of Greenville, who is also well known over the state, was acquitted in the court of general ses- co' sions here Wednesday morning of a ins charge of larceny. It was alleged that go, Nanzetta took $100 in bills from the , pocket of N. C. Saterfleld, a farmer of the Ware Shoals section, during an Af: auction sale of horses and mules at ed Camp Sevier several weeks ago. Nan- e zetta is reputed to be worth $75,000 or more and his attorneys sought to show tor at the trial that the prosecution of inc their client was not prosecution but persecution brought by Sheriff Hendrix Rector because of personal feeling against the Indian. J. Frank Epps *xj of the local bar, a witness for the de- su< fense, testified thut he heard Sheriff tiv n * timn tVint "Mnn7Pf Itl'ClUI 9UJ tit UIU U.IIV vimv * ta ought to be run out of town," and I>C( there was also evidence to the effect wo that the lie was passed between the wa sheriff and doctor some time ago. On . the witness stand Sheriff Rector denied that he had any personal feeling against P'"< Dr. Xanzetta, but did admit calling ' him a liar in the court house several otj weeks ago when Xanzetta charged the sheriff with being drunk. A number of ru< the most prominent business and pro- of fessional men of the city were sum- jjr rnoned to court by the defendant to testify as to his good character. Trial of the ease attracted much attention, duo to the fact that the defendant is bel well known not only in the city but sa, throughout the state. He has his laboratories located at Sevier station, a tul surburb of Greenville. Dr. Xanzetta has been a resident of Greenville for er< five years or more, coming here from ,, Danville. Va. 911 . m of Lloyd Clay, a negro, charged with ?k criminal assault on a young white wo- t,1! man, was lynched and his body burned ,)C' at Vicksburg, Miss., last Wednesday cos night. en' There are some 3,300 pieces of bag- an gage in the "Lost Baggage Depot" at im Hoboken, X. J., the property of over leo seas soldiers arriving at that port. cid SKULL OF AFRICAN NEGRO. reve dark hy a Certain Paragraph in the hind Peace Treaty. on 3 Germany is to restore within six jnths . . . the skull of the Sultan ;wawa, formerly in German East rica, to his Britannic majesty's gov- Quei nment." 'This sentence from the official sum- H< iry of the peace treaty presented to agaf ? Germans at Versailles set offl- ago il Washington wondering and Dail; amped libraries and scientific insti- Mou tions in the capital with inquiries," last ys a bulletin from the National Geo- Tucl iphic society. coun 'Among some tribes of Africa, in- Way iding German East Africa, skulls of In mer rulers, called sultans, are held maki high veneration, and their posses- bum n orten is or marked political value, tirea 'There are numerous tribes of Ger- fend m East Africa alone and r.s many as t ZECHO - SLOVAKIA % Lost to Get J Jnternation [IHfm P/eb is crtoi ? STATUTE MILES DRAWN NATIONAL CE< WASH I I Courtesy National Geographic ranee; Eupen and Malmedy, 382 square i 3 square miles, the Saar region to be govei il.so.ltpfl tfrfPio areas qf indicated) and b these sultans as there are tribes, of a is apparent that Sultan Okwawa tune s a sort of Mohammed or Confuc- *n i among his clansmen, and thut 'n^9 > nation which assumes sovereignty amo' in p1 sr the people who revei? his memr, and probably worship his skeletal nains, will be received with great- )""e friendship if it can restore the pre- 1 3 us talisman. ust 'Furthermore the removal of the ^l3 1 jll sheds a sidelight upon the long a pr ny of German propaganda, reaching men1 in into darkest Africa in contemplan of 'der tag* of Prussia's day under Tti ? scorching equatorial sun. artic 'The German government contri- toria leu a gouuiy sum iui tui cajjcuiuuu * ided by Adolphus Frederick, Duke arch Mecklenburg, which ostensibly a sp Lde a scientific study of the German 21, 1 stectorate in Africa in 1907-08. Trib "There is a good reason to believe ploy< it the explorers were not wholly Mexi aware of political advantages and that way of a tribal coup d'etat took by 1 ay with them the skull which now madi s gained much unlooked for public- and In 'The duke wrote a book about his in it ivels in which he states, in sum- tion i-rizing the results of his expedition, disp: it 1,017 skulls and about 4,000 eth- othei eraphica were collected. bune 'He described visits to various 'sul- Mr. is.' At one point he digresses from publ tany and linguistics to give this naive on ? nment on German policy: 'It Ford desired to strengthen and enrich the publ tan and persons in authority, and At increase thereby their interest In for ? continuance of German rule . . . relat the same time, by steadily controll- Mexl r and directing the sultan and us- Mex: f his howers, civilizing influences prop uld he introduced. Thus by de- Villa iea, and almost imperceptible to lean i sultan himse'f, he eventually be- Eurc nes nothing less than the executive itrument of the resident (German Th rernor.)' ers i 'But Germany's early policy in her in? rican colony expansion was mark- Ford by no such adroit methods; rath- 'fist by such disregard of native cus- adve ns and ruthless measures as that forth licated by her removal of the skull bune erred to in the treaty. Karl Peters, s of the first Germans to seek to went plolt African resources, instituted patrl ih a reign of terror among the na- Mr es by inhuman treatment and es- eral dally by wholesale murders of their 1916, men that the German government suit s compelled to remove his com- Way ssion until the storm of civilized court >test blew over. Solot 'But Peters was soon restored and trihu lor bureaucratic German officials as tl iely deposed native rulers, instead were co-operating with them as did the distr itish, and thus incited numerous Thei five uprisings. One of these, in pure )6, cost nearly 125,000 native lives Th roro the Africans succumbed to the ?f v "ne sort of terrorism as that insti- lepal :ed in Belgium in 1914. proir 'The duke commented on the gen- couk >8ity of the natives in presenting Clem ts but noted that 'yet the purchase trolt. ethnographical material met with stinate opposition.' He explained J it icach clan reveres some totem, Sout liA,.(n., onl fit nf the de CWIIfS u.?l V..V x,. -- OI tI isetl enters these objects of rever- final] ce. port. 'The totem is just as apt to be an imnl, or part of an animal the duke Se ntions the toad, crested crane, the Spar ipard and the goat as a skull. In- cutei lentally this fact helps explain the Grae rence of the old time southern ;ey for such tokens as the 'left leg of a grave yard rabbit caught i dark night.'" IS FORD AN ANARCHIST? stion is Being Tested in Million Dollar Libel Suit. ?nry Ford's $1,000,000 libel suit nst the Tribune company of Chi>, publishers of the Chicago y Tribune, went to trial at nt Celmens, Mich., on Monday of week, before Judge James G. cer In the circuit court of Macomb ity, on change of venue from ne county, Detroit. ho nlona rrmnaol fnr Mr. T?Y)rd e repeated refeience to tne Trli's trade mark, "The World's itest Newspaper," while the deants pleas speak of Mr. l-'otd he world's greatest manufacturer "^konigs b erg ? jEBMAKYJ V Wormr . K O f & i i | rmanf n ahzeid V too I IN MAP DCPT. ! 56RAPHIC SOCIfcTV, ! N?TQN,O.C. * 1 Society. Copyrijfht 1SP9 niles, ceded to Belgium; parts of rned by a commission appointed outheaatern third of East Prusutomobiles and estimates his forIn 1916 as at least $125,000,000. the year 1915 alone the vjarnof the Ford Motor company jnted to more than $50,000,000 or iccess of 2,500 per cent of its outiing capital stock," said the Trii plea. Reference to te plain wealth and position in the inrial world is made to show that lonspicuity and power made h!m umpvAH r\t nonrononor PrtiTl uyci OUUJCVi VI av ?v oWW... L Baaed on Editorial. le meat of the alleged libelous le was the headline of an edi.1 published by the Tribune June 916, as follows: "Ford is an Anist." The editorial was based on eclal dispatch from Detroit, June 916, and published June 22 in the une, to the effect that Ford em;s who enlisted to serve against Ico would lose their positions, their salaries would not be paid he Ford . company, nor provision e by the company for their wives families. the course of its defense as shown s plea the Tribune Invites attento the fact that although this news itch was published widely in many r newspapers at the time the Trii published it, no denial came from Ford in the interim before the ication of the Tribune editorial fune 23. On the 26th, however, denied the story and the Tribune ished the denial, the time of the alleged libel and a considerable period before the ions of the United States with Ico were strained, foreigners in Ico had been murdered, their erties confiscated or destroyed: the bandit had raided the Araertown Columbus, N. M., and all >pe was aflame with war. First Filed in Chicago, e Tribune was among the leadn urging universal military trainand preparedness, while Mr. was at that time frankly a pacMr. Ford published whole-page rtisements in newspapers setting; i his views, one of them the Trl. The Tribune turned the money >7.04 received for this advertise; over to the navy to be used for otic service. Ford first filed suit In the Fedcourt in Chicago September 7, but this was withdrawn and the instituted in the Circuit court of ne county. To give the state t jurisdiction Sam, Max and Henry non, wholesale newspaper disters doing business at Detroit he Solomon News company, also made defendants, they having ibuted the Tribune in Michigan, r status in the case is said to be ly technical. e Tribune was granted a change enue from Wayne county on al:ions that owing to Mr. Ford's tinence there the defendants 1 not obtain a fair trial. Mount lens is about 17 miles from DeVgitation by the grand lodge of h Carolina Odd Fellows over the tion of discontinuing the support le orphan home at Greenville, has ly resulted in favor of renwed sup venty-two Russian Reds, under tacan leaders, were recently exei by Wurtemberg troops near (felflng, Germany. BELGIUM SECRET PRESS Newspaper Ybat Gave So Much Concern to Germany. PRINTED IN UNDERGROUND CELLAR Patriotic Old Citizen at Great Risk to Himself Saw to It That Hie People Were Kept Advised That the Forces of Right Were Still Working for Their Redemption. Christian Science Monitor. Seven million and a half Belgians with all the hopes, energies, sensations of a modern civilized people, sensitive like ourselves to the lights and shadows of life lived almost without a murmur for over four years under the domination of the Germans, whose usurpation of the rule of their dear country they had not in the remotest degree provoked or merited1 a usurpation ui> der which nearly all their hopes, energies, sensations, at least their pleasant ones, were beaten down and trodden under foot. The business man lost his business, professional men could no longer practice their profession, the working man had no work. Spindles ceased to weave, lathes ceased to turn, presses ceased to print, shops had nothing to sell. The telephone was taken from your house, and only under extraordinary circumstances might you telegraph or travel by rail. The younger men were off to the war, the middle-aged men, many of them, were digging trenches and building roads for their enemy, exposed to death-dealing hardships and exposure. Even if your family had not been broken up and you were living where you had always lived, you could not call that home your own, for enemy agents might at any time visit it and rob it of kitchen utensils, brass, beds clothing and mattresses. Even if you were wen-io-ao you scarcely ever had a square meal, and you wore the clothes year In and year out, that you wore before the war, and If you were poor, you had a very bad time of It Indeed. Yet 7,600,000 people endured these thing* for four years. They did not die, or revolt, or greatly murmur. "What, then, was the secret of their endurance? Though much is taken, much abides. They had strength and long-suffering, courage to .face their enemies, and a sense of fellowship in their many trials. They suffered, they were strong. "Dayton Is not to be pitied, Dayton is glorlfljd." 1 The Belgians' Coniolatiorfk. These imprisoned Belgians had four consolations: the relief work in which all tried to forget themselves and in which, side by side with the Americans, they preserved a shadow of Independence; the letters which at great risk, they wrote to and received from the world outside, chiefly their fighting sons a lady of Brussels secretly 'delivered 50,000 a week; the Paris nanflrs which airmen occasionally dropped in the neighborhood, and the one copy, was secertly read aloud In the evening to a trusted circle of friends; and last but not least, La Libre Belglque, their own paper, which was written by those who were suffering like themselves, calling the German by his very proper names, exposing ruthlessly his meanness and deceit, affirming even the justice of Belgium's and the Allies cause, appearing every week or so as it did, for these reasons as well as by its very title, was a rallying point, a 'clarion call, a star of hope to all that in that wide, deep wandering were. It reminded them that high faith was left, 'and love, and patience, . which at last shall overcome." On the crest of the hill at Brussels is a large park. At one end is the Royal Palace, which the Germans turned into a Red Cross hospital. At the other end are the government bulldii^s, where the Germans estab ' 'i -'- <'Tr_ ' Within nsnea mcir i\ui<iiiiaiiua4ivui * * gun-shot of the Konimandantur, down the hill, are the office and press of the newspaper, La Patriote, adjoining1 the home of the editor, Mr. Victor Jourdain. Here was conceived the Idea of La Libre Belgique and here the editing was carried on through 114 Issues. A Voice is Raised. No sooner had the enemy established himself in Brussels, than he published a paper called Le Bruxellols, which, while pretending to be patriotic, aimed slowly to poison the minds of the people. Mr. Jourdain turned to his sonin-law and said: "We cannot tolerate this. The punlic must be warned. Will you help me?" The son-in-law, Mr. Eugene van Doren agreed. The manuscript was soon ready and, being reproduced by means of a primitive apparatus, a small number were distributed by boy scouts. A few days later a formal decree forbade the reproduction of written matter by print, typewriting, manifold or ouier au*mcatory process. ' The authors were pleased and bided their next chance. This came on New Year's Day, 1915. In all the churches was read Cardinal Mercicr's pastoral letter, "Patriotism and Endurance," in which he said, "We are bound to obey our enemy; we are not bound to respect him." It was at once decided to edit the letter and print and sell at cost price 25,000 copies. A printer by the name of Becquart was found. Abbe Demoor, vicar of St. Albert's, and van Doren were to distribute each a half. But they had only distributed 300 copies when the Germans broke into the printing shop, seized the remaining copies, and the printer barely had time to make off. Another printer wis found, and another 25,000 copies were printed; but again only a portion of these found their way over the country. Nevertheless, this clandestine propaganda made a tremendous impression. The people had found a voice. Mr. Jourdain again approached his son-inlaw and together they agreed to edit and publish regularly a prohibited paper. This was in February, 1915. The first number, 1,000 copies, soon appeared, named by Mr. Jourdain, La Libre Belgique, to which Mr. van Doren added: "Bulletin of Patriotic Pro paganda Appearing regularly Irregularly Non-censored Telegraphic address: Kommandantur, Brussels Unable to find a place of perfect quiet, we have installed the offices in an automobile cellar Business being at a standstill under the German domina tion, we have suppressed the page of advertisements and urge our client* to keep their money for better days;" Secret Distribution. It was also suggested that as wide a distribution as possible be given to the paper. Van Doren and his wife wrapped each number In paper, and friends, of senators and deputies, and others who In turn distributed the paper all over the country. The counsel to distribute It as widely as possible was not necessary. Everybody whispered to everybody else: "Have you seen La Libre Belgique?" And If you had not and could be absolutely trusted, forthwith a copy was produced from an Inside pocket The numbers followed one another in quick succession. at first twice a week, and ulti. mately as many as 20,000 copies per issue were printed. This is extraordinary when one considers the dangers step in the process: The gathering of and difficulties that attended every the copy, the delivery of the copy, the change from one printer to ahother, the finding of the paper, the printing and the distributing. But we anticpate: let us see what a few of these dangers and difficulties were. Mr. Jourdain moved his office into a house, a back room on the second floor, a room that was nicknamed the "Konspirateur." An electric bell was ready to announce the advent of an enemy. The editor wrote on very thin paper. Each article, as finished, he rolled tightly and placed Into one or two holes bored down into a door (from the top) that led into another room. Here the printer, appioaching from the other side, found the manuscript, without having any communication with the editor. Later, slits were made in the back of shelves for the same purpose. Van Doren put the copy in the hollowed cane which he always carried and marched' off toward home. There he typed out clearly the manuscript, being careful to remove the ribbon. The papers as uiey came irom tne printer, wrapped up by van Doren and his wife, were let down the chimney at night by a cord. Every precaution had to be taken against surprise. Ths Hidden Press. The greatest difficulty, however, and the greatest danger was In the printing. It would have been possible for the Germans to discover any regular press by means of the type. Van Doren, therefore, determined to set up his own press and be his own printer. He first, In an abandoned house, 11 Avenue Verte, merely did the composition, helped by the two brothers Allaer, but later, April, 1915, installed a foot* press In an unused portion of his cardboard factory, Rue Van der Sticbelln. Mr. Jourdain supplied the funds. Still later he bought the power press of the brothers Allaer and had it transferred in small parcels of-his cardboard factory Mr. ran Doren describes the places as follows: "My workshop lent Itself marvelously well to establishment of a clandestine press. At one end of the shor> there was a small triaxurle. four meters by two, that butted on to my neighbor. It was there I set up my new machine, immediately under the gas motor on the ground floor. One wormed one's way down into this cave by a small trapdoor, which was closed on entering. But my neighbor was a German, and at all costs he must not hear the noise of the motor. I therefore placed thick mattreesee against the parti-wall. The next thing was to wall in the press. I bought a trowel, a hammer and a mortarboard and set to work. In order not to attract the attention of my neighbor, I Introduced bricks and cement In very small quantities. Opposite my shop lived another German, an officer, and I had to proceed with extreme prudence. It took me three weeks to finish the wall, but it was solid, and it was with difficulty that the Germane later demolished it. Over the trapdoor were scattered old pieces of iron, cardboard, etc., and it was impossible to imagine that anything was there concealed. It was also almost impossible for the three of us to work in such a small place." When the press was working, the belting came from the motor through two narrow slits in the floor. When the belting was withdrawn, the slits, underneath, were covered by a piece of cardboard on which was inserlbod: "Honneur auz soldats beiges!" GENERAL NEWS NOTE8. Items of Interest Gathered From All the World. The Geary "equal rights" bill, according negroes equal rignts in hotels, restaurants and theatres, ka? been killed by the Pennsylvania legislature by a two to one vote. Donny Geyer, 35 years old, upset a lamp while drunk in his homo at Chambersburg, Pa, last Wednesday evening, and he*with his three motherless boys were burned to death. Henry J. Heinz, pickle manufacturer, and father of "67 varietiea" died at Pittsburgh, Pa, last Wednesday, aged 74 years. He was ill a week with double pneumonia. The former German liner, the Impe rator, turned over to the United States under the armistice agreement, sailed from Brest, France, last Thursday, with about 4,000 soldiers, nurses and others on board. Fifty thousand workers affiliated with the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, went on a strike In New York last Wednesday. Better^pay and working conditions are the demanda Swederborg's Rules of Life, A reader suggests that we print Swedenborg*s rules of life: 1. Often to read and meditate on the Word of God. 2. Submit In everything to the will of Divine Providence. 3. To observe In everything a propriety of behaviour, and to keep the tonscience clear. 4. To discharge with fidelity the functions of my employment, and the duties of my office, and to render myself In all things useful to society. Dr. D. D. Wallace, of Spartanburg, has been elected president of the state board of charities and corrections, to succeed Dr. George B. Cromer, of Mamhorrr T">r Wnllnoe is DTOfOSSOr of history and economics at Woflford college. _ 1 ? -A