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" 0 jB|gB11,wggH;ga^^ * . U M. grists sons, pobii^. j % cjfamits fEtcsjagei;: $or Ihi; ?rcunofion a)f thi; golitiifal, ?o<;iat, ^ri^aifural and (Commtiicial Jnterests of <hi| |eo8^. j TERM,l^f0c^E^iNc^ANC" ESTABLISHED 1855 ~~ YORK, S. C., FRIDAY, JULY 11, 1919. ]STO. 55 MESSAGE FROM THE HEART President Talks .to Americans About Peace Pact. HEARD BY THRONG OF THOUSANDS From Now on World Will bo Safeguarded Against Unnecessary Bloodshed?World is Free to Make Progress Along Lines of Freedom?Other Speeches to Follow. President Wilson returned to the| United States last Tuesday, and in his first speech delivered on American soil In New York since the peace treaty was signed, declared that the peace treaty concluded at Paris was "a Just peace, which, if it can be preserved, will safeguard the world from unnecessary bloodshed." The only reference the president made to his political opponents was when in referring to the negotiations at Paris, he said: mf "I, am afraid some people, some persons, do not understand that vision. They do not see it. They have looked too much upon the ground. They have thought too much of the interests that were near them and they have not listened to the voices of their neighbors. I have never had a moment's doubt as to where the heart and purpose of this people lay." The president arrived fft the Hobo ken army pier, formerly the dock of the Hamburg American Line, shortly before S o'clock. The army transport George Washington, on which he sailed from Brest, was escorted up the bay by the battleship Pennsylvania and more than a score "bf destroyers and smaller naval craft. On the New Jersey shore, the state which first honored Mr. Wilson with a political office, were massed 10,000 school children who welcomed the chief executive of the nation with the strains of the national anthem. Line of Children. Through the lines of the children, all dressed in white, the president passed to the ferry which carried him to the Manhattan- side of the river. He arrived In New York at 4.15 p. m., where he was greeted by the official reception committee headed by Governor Smith and Mayor Hylan. Prom the ferry terminal to Carnegie Hall a distance of about three miles, the presidential party passed through streets lined with cheering thousands of men, women and children, who thronged the sidewalks and fllled every available window and roof top. From the upper windows of the business skyscrapers great showers of confetti rained upon the president and Mrs. Wilson, literally millions of scraps of paper floating through the air carrying this motto: "Everybody's business: To stand by your government. To help the soldier get a Job. To help crush Bolshevism." The head of the procession was formed by several companies of khaki clad soldiers and marines, followed by some hundreds of sailors clad In white uniforms. Immediately preceding the presidential car was an automobile fllled with secret service agents and the car itself was guarded by the president's personal body guard of four picked men, one of whom rode on each running board throughout the trip. In the car with President Wilson were Mrs. Wilson, Governor Smith and f Mayor Hylan. The president remained standing, raising his hat constantly in response to the wave of cheering f which rolled along the route of march. At one point on Twenty-third street, opposite a large factory building, the windows of which were filled with girl workers, the president seized an American flag and waved It vigorously in acknowledgment o fthe girls cheering. Two Hundred Motors. *>?. A couple of hundred automobiles carrying cabinet members, a congressional delegation and representatives _ .of the state and civic governments besides diplomatic representatives of the allied nations, completed the procession. Several hours before the president's - arrival at Carnegie Hall every seat in the building was occupied, and the police had considerable difficulty in keeping back the thousands who tried to forte a way Into the hall. As the president stepped from his automobile a massed naval and military band played "The Star Spangled Banner," while military escort presented arms. Mr. Wilson was preceded to the stage by Vice President and Mrs. Marshall, former Speaker of the House Champ Clark and Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, all of whom were recognized and cheered by the crowds. The president's appearance on the platform was the signal for an ovation which lasted some minutes, ending when the band broke into the strains of "Over There." There was a sudden pause when an officer in British uniform unexpectedly appeared on the platform. Mr. Wilson jumped to his feet and crossed the stage to meet him and the cheering broke out in redoubled volume as the word flashed through the hall that the stranger was MaJ. G. H. Scott, commander of the British trans-Atlantic dirigible R-34. Brief welcoming speeches were made by Rodman Wannamake;\ Mayor Hylan and Governor Smith. The New York governor who was repeatedly cheered, Introduced the president as the bearer of a peace treaty "worthy of the honor, dignity and majesty of this great country." When Mr. Wilson stepped to the front of the stage the band again began playing the national anthem, but was drowned in the applause and cheers of the several thousand men and women in the audience, who refused to resume their seats until the president had signalled for silence. President Shows Emotion. Mr. Wilson was obviously under the strain of deep emotion when he began to speak, and his voice was noticeably hoarse. He said: "Fellow Countrymen: "I am not going to try this afternoon to make you a real speech. I am a bit alarmed to find how many speeches I have In my system unde* livered, but they are all speeches that come from the mind and I want to say Lto you this afternoon only a few words "You have made me deeply happy by the generous welcome you have extended to me. but I do not believe that the welcome you extend to me Is half as great as that which I extend to you. Why, Jeraeyman though I am, this Is the first time I ever thought that Hoboken was beautiful. i have really, though I have tried on the other side of the water to conceal it, been the moat homesick man in the American expeditionary force and it la with feelings that it would be vain for me to try to express that I f.nd myself In this beloved country again. I do not say that because I lack in admiration of other countries. "There have been many things that softened my homesickness. One of the chief things that softened it was the very generous welcome that they extended to me as your representative on the other side of the water. And it was still more softened by the pride that I had in discovering that America had' at last convinced the world of her true character. "I was welcome because they had seen with their own eyes what America had done for the world. They had deemed her selfish. They had deemed her devoted to material Interests. And they had seen her boys come across the water with a vision even more beautiful than .that which they conceived when they had entertained dreams of libertv and peace. "And then I had the pride of finding out by personal observation of the kind of men we had sent over. I had crossed the seas with the kind of men who had taken them over, without whom they could not have got to Europe and then when I got there I saw that army of men, that army of clean men, that army of men devoted to the high interests of humanity, that army (that one was glad to point out and say, 'There are my fellow countrymen.' "Home Along With You." "It softens the homesickness a good deal to have so much of home along with you, and these boys were constantly reminding me of home. They did not walk the streets like anybody else. I do not mean that they walked the streets sell'-assertively. They did not. They walked the streets as if they knew that they belonged wherever free men lived, that they were welcome in the great republic of France and were comrades with the other armies that had helped to win the great battle ai.d to show the great sacrifice. Been use it is a wonderful thing for this nation, hitherto isolated from the large afTairs of the world, to win not only the universal confidence of the people of the world, but their universal affection. "And that, and nothing less than that, is what has happened. Wherever it was suggested that troops should be sent and it was desired that troops of occupation should excite no prejudice, no uneasiness on the part of those to whom they were sent, the men who represented the other nations came to me and asked me to send American soldiers. They not only implied, but they said, that the presence of American soldiers would be known not to mean anything except friendly protection and assistance. Do you wonder that it made our hearts swell with pride to realize these things? "But while these things In some degree softened my homesickness, they made me all the more eager to- get nome wnere wie resi 01 me ioiks live, to get home where the great dynamo of national energy was situated, to get home where the great purposes of national action were formed, and to be allowed to take part in the counsels and in the actions which were formed, and to be taken by this great nation, which from first to last has followed the vision of the men who set it up and created it. We have had our eyes very close upon our tasks at times, but whenever we lifted them, as we were accustomed to lift them, to a distant horizon, we were aware that all the peoples of the earth had turned their faces toward us as those who were the friends, of freedom and of right, and whenever we thought of national policy and its relation upon the affairs of the world, we knew we were under bond to do the large thing and the right thing. Fail to See Vision. "It is a privilege therefore, beyond all computation for a man, whether in a great capacity or a small, to take part in the council, and in the resolutions of a people like this. I am afraid some people, some persons do net understand that vision. They do not see It. They have looked too much upon the ground. They have thought too much of the Interests that were near them, and they have not listened to the voices of their neighbors. "I have never had a moment's doubt as to where the heart and purpose of this people lay. When any one on the other side of the water has raised the question, "Will America come in and help?' I have said, 'Of course America will come in and help.' She can not do anything else. She will not disappoint any high hope that has been' formed of her. Least of all will she in this day of new born liberty all over the world fall to extend her hand of support and assistance to those who have been made free. 1> lna+ Daas* "The governor has spoken of a great task ended. Yes, the formation of the peace Is ended, but It creates only a new task just begun. I believe you will see that it is a just peace and a peace which, if It can be preserved, will save the world from unnecessary bloodshed. "And now the great task is to preserve it. I have come back with my heart full of enthusiasm for throwing everything that I can, by way of influence or action, in with you to see that the peace is preserved, that when the long reckoning comes, men may look back upon this general convention of Americans and say 'They were true to the vision which they saw at their birth.'" The torpedo boat destroyer Tillman, named in honor of the late Senator B. R. Tillman was launched at the Charleston navy yard last Monday in the presence of Mrs. Tillman, Governor Conner and a number of other well known people. Little Miss Mary Tillman. grand daughter of the late senator chrlsten-'d the boat. Walter V. Humphries, a well known eitlzen of GalTney died in a sanitarium Saturday aired 47 years. SHERIFF HENDRIX RECTOR Slain Greenville Officer Was Re1 markable Man ASPIRED TO A SEAT IN CONGRESS Went Into Politics as a Magistrate Made Good; Became a Policeman, Made Good; Became Sheriff, Made Good; and Had He Lived Would Probably Have Gone to Congress. By Jas. D. Grist. Death of Hendrix Rector at the hands of United States Revenue Officer Jake Gosnell in Briscoe's srarage in Greenville, last Friday removes from the state a noted character and one of the strongest political powers and most interesting personalities who ever held sway in any county of the state. Hot headed and impetuous, absolutely fearless, kindly toward his friends and a good hater toward his enemies, most of whom no matter how bitter their animus, would freely admit that he made a good officer, he was well known in every section of South Carolina. So far as Greenville county was concerned there was not a man, woman or child within her borders who did not know hin, either personally or by reputation. As a member of the staff of the Greenville Daily Piedmont for a period of six months, it was a part of my duties to daily "cover" the sheriff's office. I came to know the sheriff well and there developed between us quite a friendship. If there ever was a day when I went to his office in search of new.i and didn't get a "story," I have forgotten that day. No one perhaps Jn the state, understood better, the value of newspaper publicity than did the late sheriff, /md there were few if any who knew better how to get it. He was himself a good newspaper man and he knew the value of a story from the newspaper man's point of view as well as almost any newspaper man himself knew. Some of the newspaper boys in Greenville used to tell this story on Sheriff Rector: During his campaign for re-election he called up the city editor of the Greenville News one night about 12 o'clock and said: "I have just reached home from the city. Somebody cracked down at me six times with a pistol just before I reached the house. I chased the fellow; but he got away after shooting at me six times. I can't imagine who it was un less 11 was some puimctu enemy who had It in for me. Thought it might be a matter of news for you. Good-by." About a half hour later the city editor's 'phone rang again. It was Sheriff Rector. "Say, I expect you better make that four shots instead of six. I believe I was a little mistaken in the number." I was In his office one day and sprung the story on him. A twinkle came in his eye and a grin came over his face. Then he laughed as he said in his rough, mountain drawl: "Jim, I don't know much about politics although I have been trying to study 'em some in the last ten years. But let me tell you; I done learned one thing: Yo' sho got to keep yo' self befo' the people an' yo' sho got ter back up what yo' do an' what yo' say. I'd sho' be in a bad fix if I couldn't manage to get in the newspapers some how or other." And he always managed. Some Greenville county editors had little admiration or good will toward Rector personally; but they all appreciated the fact that he was good "copy" an ' it was he who put the pep in many a copy of Greenville's newspapers. Although'not such a very large man physically, weighing about 145 pounds * U ana stanaing less man ?ia im, height, he was a powerful man In a way?as quick as lightning and absolutely unafraid of anything that walked. In the course of his rather stormy career extending from the time he arrived at manhood until his untimely demise, he had been engaged In many physical encounters with both white and black and in most instances he came out best, though on more than one occasion he was thoroughly picked, taking the licking like a good sport. There were times?many times perhaps, when he became embroiled in trouble which he could have avoided and should have avoided. But that was Rector's way. Had his environment in life been different he would have been a different man perhaps. Yet no man in the Piedmont section had more friends and truer friends and admirers. They believed in him. Born in the Dark Corner of the county thirty-seven years ago at a time when that section did not afford the educational opportunities that it does now, he had little chance to obtain even a common school education. He told me more than once In a tone of regret that he did not take advantage of the opportunities that he had. He quit school for good after obtaining the mere rudiments and started to making moonshine liquor, an occupation in which many of the mountaineers of the section engaged at that time. He told me once that he had his ups and downs in the liquor manufacturing business. "The revenooers busted me up time and agin," he said. "Mifehty nigh every body was makin' liquor an'? there wasn't much money in it nohow. One of my neigh Dors turned me up once, ne wa? u uig churchman and he made liquor too, his still not being so far from mine. 1 had several hundred gallons of pretty good corn made when this fellow reported me. The officers come and busted mo up. "I knowed this fellow what told on me and I knowed where his still was. The next night I went to his place and tnking an axe I busted his outfit all to pieces. Then T told him I busted him up and I told him I was quitting the liquor business for good. And I did. Ho was mighty mad about it and we didn't love each other any more for several years. But finally we got all right and 1 think he voted for me for sheriff." Itector was elected magistrate in the mountain country almost before he attained his majority and for several years he administered rude Justice in the Dark Corner. He studied law in order to hold his Job and he was. at the time of his death, a pretty fair lawyer in his rough way. I have seen him conduct a prosecution In several trials before magistrates and he conducted his cases in a way that would be quite creditable to several good lawyers I know. More than ten years ago Rector came to Greenville and took a Job on the city police force. It was said that he made a good policeman and tht;re is no doubt of the fact he made many friends while on the force. Politics was his hobby and he never neglected an opportunity to advance himself politically. Nobody dreamed that ha had a ghost of a show when he announced for sheriff against ex-Sheriff GUreath. The campaign developed into a bitter one and he was elected by a small majority. Four years later he wag reelected with ease and already he^ had announced his candidacy for a third time. A few weeks ago he spoke his confidence of re-election although he expected a hot fight. And there Is no doubt that it would have been because while he had many friends?he had many enemies. He was always active in trying to suppress violations of the law whether itmrl Vila immn/llota {lit>iaf)(ptlnn nr not. I was out riding with him one night in Greenville. We were going down Washington street toward the Southern station. Suddenly a car darted out from a side street in front of us at something like forty'or fifty miles an hour far too fast. He did not know the occupants of the car when he remarked to me: "That fellow might run over somebody going like that. I expect I better tell him a thing or two. And then he opened up his own Bulck and started after the racer. Down a side street we went at a gait that frightened me. The sheriff shouted at the other car to stop, but Instead the driver turned on more gas. Rector did too and I began tc see visions of a hearse or an ambulance at best. The race was on for a mile and then the sheriff overtook the other car. The driver proved to be a negro whom the sheriff knew and who was in company with another negro. He immediately began to beg the officer to let him go, saying Me didn't know he was running so rast. "sneriff," he said, "if you'll let me go, I'll turn you up somthin' big." "You turn that car of yo's? around in front of mine an' don't yo' run fast neither," was the reply. Bam^up Washington street we went and Around to the police station where the speeder was turned over to the city police. He drew $25 or thirty days in recorder's court next day. Although he left the mountain country years ago Rector never forgot the vernacular of the hills and he always talked with the drawl that distinguishes the mountaineers. "Ain't no use of me tryin' to change my way of thinkin', an' talkin' and doin'," he used to say. "I'm just what I am, an' if I don't suit a lot o' folks, I do sorter suit a lot of others an' the best Man what ever lived couldn't please all of 'erq^' The dead sheriff had a beautiful country home on thq outskirts of the city, located on the Laurens road. He wanted the life of the country and he was engaged in farming quite extensively. He never let his farming Interfere with his public duties, however and whether the call came to go on some business in the day or the dead of night, he was always ready to respond. Although he loved children, he had none of his own. It was no uncommon thing, however, for him to ride into one of the mill villages around Greenville in his autmobile and fill the car with- children he would pick up here and there and carry them for a long ride. A good stump speaker, he delighted in public speech making. There is hardly a nook or corner of Greenville county in which he has not delivered a speech of some kind, most of them political. He talked too much many times but it was his way. And his friends and supporters liked to hear him talk. He long entertained an ambition to represent the Fourth district in congress and in the course of a few years, had he lived, he would have been an aspirant for the honor. He had spoken to me more than once on the subject, saying that it had long been the am- , bition of his life to go to Washington, although he doubted if he could ever command sufficient political strength to put It over. "Why If you ever got to congress It would only be a little while until you would be wanting to get in the senate," I remarked one day. "That is the way with all you politicians. The further you go, the further you want to go." "No, suh," he said with his long drawl. "If an uncouth, roughneck mountaineer like me what never had much of a chance except what he got by fussin' and cussin' and scrappin' ever got to congress, that would be goin' some, an' I just reckon I would he satisfied. From what I have seen of some of em' and from what I know of some of 'em, I figure a fellow like o' me might some time get to congress but you never did hear of no ex-blockader gittin' to be a senator did you'?" And of course I never had. The great crowd of more than 10,000 people who attended his funeral Sunday attested his popularity and his acquaintance. The funeral was the most spectacular occurrence of his 37 years of life. He would have had It so. In the city of Greenville, around the mills, on the farms and up in the Dark Corner In the vicinity of Glassy Mountain where the people are beginning to see the light of a new day, although the smoke from numerous moonshine distilleries still somewhat beclouds the atmosphere, they will talk of Hendrix Rector and his untimely on,i ftw von rs to come. Product of the mountain, fearleso and bold, climbing down from the hills and into recognition by his own indomitable will, he will not be forgotten. He had his faults. As is the case with a good many folks and as he has told me more than once, he was his own worst enemy, perhaps. Yet he had admirable qualities and traits of character?and taken all In all wns?right much of a man. C. Y. Allison, state constable of Cherokee county captured a copper still of 50 gallons capacity on the York county side of the line, Sunday night assisted by State Constable Charles Byars. Ten bushels of mash were also destroyed. THE NEWS OF CLOVER. Events of the Past Week Gathered by Enquirer Staff Correspondent. Clover, July 10?'Ten teachers will be employed by the Clover high school for the ensuing session, according to : Mr. James A. Page of the board of trustees. Eight of these teachers will be employed at the main school building and the other two will teach at ( the two mills. It was mentioned in , this correspondence last week that . the management of the Clover and j Hawthorn Mills had agreed to furnish ( a building at each mill for a school, provided the trustees would furnish a ( teacher and the trustees readily agreed TVia anVtAAl Kll IU lilU (/luyvoilivil. * WV VU1IU' ing of the town Is already overcrowded and with the coming of the compulsory attendance law and larger attendance by reason of the increased area of the school district the local situation so far as providing for all the students would really have been very embarassing had it not been for the offer of the mills. As yet there has been no election of teachers to serve the ensuing year and there probably will not be for several weeks yet. There have been few applicants to teach in the schools here and the trustees expect to find some difficulty in securing the teachers desired. It is understood that there is to be an increase in salaries all along the line this year. Petitions placed in circulation some time ago asking an election on the question of increasing the special levy from five to eight mills have as- yet not a sufficient number of signers. There is no hurry about the matter, however, and the advocates of the increase are confident that the levy will carry. Big Fourth for Negroos. Negroes of Clover and vicinity had a big Fourth of July celebration in Clover under the auspices of the Odd Fellows' lodge. There was a large attendance and good order was maintained throughout the day. Cops' Salaries Increased. Town council in meeting assembled Monday evening voted to increase the salary of Chief of Police John A. Jackson to $85 a month and that of Policeman J. R. Robinson to $75 a month, somewhat more in keeping with tho increased cost of living. In addition to iiis duties as a policeman, Chief J&ckson has charge of the work of keeping the water and light plant t in shape, the supervision of street road ? work and other municipal duties c which keep him on the go all the time. While Clover is a good town morally 1 as well as every way and few arrests are made by the policemen, fewer still since the decease of Mr. J. B. Corn, the two pojlcemen are well on the job at all times and the recent increase of salary is a deserved reward for their efficiency and ability. To Build Warehouse. A cotton warehouse with a capacity * of at least 1,000 bales is to be erected r in town by the Bank of Clover. Con- 1 st ruction is to be begun at once and 8 it will be completed in time to house 8 a part of the 1919 cotton crop. The 1 warehouse will be controlled and 8 operated by the bank and will fill a long felt want in the community. The a warehouse will be located on a site c convenient to farmers from all sections 8 surrounding, it will have adequate fire 8 fighting equipment and all conveni- c ences of the modern farmers' cotton v warehouse. 8 Liquor in a Tree. e Chief of Police John A. Jackson has * discovered a" new wrinkle whlcn some ? of the peddlers of squirrel whisky are c working in an effort to prevent local and other officers from confiscating their stocks and themselves along with It. Most of the liquor that comes into Clover is made on the North Carolina side of the state line, according to the well informed, and local officers keep a watchful eye on the Gastonia road. Noticing for some time past that various thirsty ones traveled the Gastonia road and step in the vicinity of Crowder's Creek trestle, there have been several sea;ches of the ground in that vicinity with the hope of finding the stuff buried somewhere. But the searches have proved fruitless. Recently Chief Jackson has learned that the tigers instead of burying thefr supply have taken to hiding it in the tops of trees. Just a short time ago the branches of a tall tree near the Crowders' Creek trestle sheltered a four gallon jug of moonshine. The dispenser of booze sits in the vicinity of the tree according to the officers. When a customer comes up he scales the tree and from his lofty perch, pours out ine UWIICU auiuuiu. uican- \ ing of stone and glass jugs perched in t the top of lofty trees with rifles and t revolvers may soon become a popular a sport with officers of the law working j in this section. j Many to Gaatonia. t Saturday was a rather dull day in i Clover, many people from the town c and surrounding country having taken ? a day off to go to Gastonia to attend j the great celebration held there in honor of the returned soldiers and sailors. There were few people from the country in town, and according to ( Clover merchants, the day was rather like Sunday. Whenever either Gastonia or Yorkville decides to have a ( big day, they can always count on a i big representation from Clover and x the Clover community. Personal Mention. ] Friends and acquaintances of Mrs. | Sam McCall of Clover, who has been j ill for some time past will regret to learn that there is little improvement , in her condition. She will be taken ( to Columbia, for treatment. 1 Rev. W. P. Grier and Miss Pearl j Williams of Clover attended the con- , vention of the Young People's Christian Union of the A. R. P. church ( which was held in Newberry this ( week. , Zeb Neill of Newport News, Va., is < vl?itinfr his nnrents in Clover. Miss Wlllena Neill has returned to | her home in Aiken after a visit to rel- . atives in Clover. James Slfford has returned to his , home in Clover after a visit to Mon- , treat. N. C. | Miss Margaret Blankenshlp of Rock ( Hill, visited Misses Louise and Christine Smith here this week. , Son of President Monroe.?Of all i men and women in our country who 1 have gone beyond the three score and ten years of the accepted allotted span , of life, none is more interesting than ! MaJ. . James Monroe of Jeffersonville, j Fla,, son of James Monroe, fifth president of the United States. That a son of the fifth president of the United States should be living is proof that ours is still- a very young republic. This remakable man will be 104 years old on the fourth day of next July. He was born in Richmond, Va., in the year 1815, and he does not appear to be any older than some men a quarter of a century younger than he. He had a sister who lived to be 105 years old. TTA U ~ ..A4AHAM a# 4UA UAvlAnn a r* A X1C ID CL vciciau Ul WHO iUOAlvau MUU ZJivll Wars and had enthusiasm enough to offer his services to the government tn the war with Germany. His work in the shipyards is, in a way, service Tor his country, as he took the place of a younger man released for war service when he entered upon it. He was but 12 years old when his father died. Worry does not enter Into Major Monroe's philosophy of life. He is of the opinion that it is Inimical to longevity and he knows that it lessens the Joy of life. The other enemy of old age, high living, has never had a ihance to shorten his years.?Kansas Dity Star. THE FIGHT FOR THE LEATHER Did Soldier Remembers the Incident Related by Mr. Hayne. Editor Yorkville Enquirer. I was very much interested in the Interview you had with Mr. Hayne in Grreenville. I was present at the time and saw the whole affair. Mr. Hayne's statement is correct, and his memory must oe good. I can not add anything of interest,, ixcept that I know the names of both he combatants and it was a battle royal, and as Mr. tfayne states, one of :hem took the sidewalk, in front of the ;ourthouse, with her raven-black hair langing down her back to her waist, ind with bloody face and the Are of Qattle in her eye, defied all comers, ind she meant it, too, for she came of l long line of fighting stock. But I vill give no names, as doubtless both >f the women have long since passed >ver the river into that where neither sacon nor leather will ever be the :ause of a renewal of hostilities. But the sad part of the affair was, hat while the two were hair pulling, jome sneak, fox like, slipped in and :arried off the prize. M. S. Carroll. Gilbert, S. C. WHY WE WENT TO WAR. t Was Because There Was No Way to Avoid the Issue. President Wilson, with great force ind clearness, on June 14, 1917, said: "It is plain enough how we were forced into the war- The extraordinay insults and aggressions of the impe ia! German government left us no lelf-respecting choice but to take up .rms in defense of our rights as a free 1- i ?"? Knnnp a sovereign ^uyic anu VI vut uvmv* - v :overnment" Notwithstanding this admirable tatement of Mr. Wilson that we were onipelled to go to war in self-defense ,nd, therefore, for purely selfish reaons, many Americans continue to prolaim that we went to war wholly from inselfish and altruistic motives. The ilanufacturers Record has often pointed out the mistake of preachers, eachers and religious papers as well a of politicians, who have'proclaimed ur altruism, and said that we went to ear from wholly unselfish motives. How utterly false are all such claims n the light of President Wilson's clearut statement that we were compelled o take up arms in defense of our lghts as a free people! Any man who >roclaims that we went into the war rom disinterested motives deliberately iiscredita the statement of President IVilson and practically charges him vith having uttered a falsehood. "Why discuss this matter now?" ome may ask. The answer is that the ruth should be known now, just as listory will record it, and because ev?avs we entered this war nerely from a high sense of duty to :ivilization is helping to create a wholy Pharisaical commendation of ourlelves which can lead only to evil, for t will gradually sap our moral fiber ind make hypocritical Pharisees out ?f many of our people. Moreover, it is an insult to our Allies ;o intimate to them in this way that hey went to war for selfish reasons in <aving themselves, while we went to var from unselfish reasons to save hem. It is a "holler than thou" atitude, unworthy of America. The ooner the whole nation comes to resize that we went to war to save our exBtence just as our Allies did, and for he exact reasons stated by President Wilson, the sooner will we come to a lear, honest understanding of the war ind its meaning to us.?Manufacturers Record. STATE NEWS IN BRIEF. Current Happenings Gathered From All Sections of South Carolina. The Cherokee county court of general sessions opens next Monday. Vmong the cases to be tried are four nurder charges. A. LeRoy Bethea who lived near Oillon was thrown from his buggy and tilled last Saturday night when the ?uggy was struck by an automobile. Keister Hair, a well known young nan of Prosperity was shot and mortally wounded Sunday night by G. W. Kinard who mistook him for a burgar. He 'fad recently returned from service overseas with the 81st division. The city of Abbeville has awarded :o the Southern Paving company of Chattanooga a contract to do 51,000 rards of street paving at a cost of 1176.000. Columbia has purchased a new com liination police patrol and ambulance it a cost of $3,600. Fire at the Gaffney Manufacturing company's plant in Gaflfney last Saturday did damage estimated at $65,>00 to 350 bales of cotton. The origin jf the fire is unknown. Jake Gosnell, United States revenue jfficer who killed Sheriff Hendrlx Rector' in Greenville last Friday is now in the state penitentiary for safe keeping. After the shooting Gosnell was carried to the Spartanburg jail and was brought to Columbia Monday by Sheriff White of Spartanburg. GARNERED WITH SCISSORS News From Within and Without the County. CONDENSED FOR' QUICK READING Some Items of Fact, Some of Comment and All Helping to Give an Idea of What Our Neighbors Are Saying and Doing. , Rock Hill Record, July 7: Mr. and Mrs. Jim Huey have returned from their bridal trip are at home to I thalr frtpnHa at t V-in VtAmA r\f fVio I groom's mother, Mrs. Lizzie Huey Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Wilson, Jr., left here yesterday to go to Montreat and got as far as Chimney Rock and had to turn and come back on account of rains, throughout the mountains, having met a party who said the road above there was in mud hub deep. Cards have been received here announcing the marriage at Washington, O. C., last Sunday June 29, of Miss Alma Hilliard and Irvin Wachter. The bjfide is well known in Rock Hill, she having for many years been an assistant instructor in the muBlc department in W.'nthrop College At the home of Rev. and Mrs. A. S. Rogers, Thursday afternoon, Miss Bessie Viola Patterson and J. L. Cunnlhghom, both of Fort Mill, were married. The ceremony was impressively performed by Rev. A. S. Rogers in the presence of a few friends Lieut T. W. Huey arrived in. Rock Hill Friday morning having reached New York Tuesday from France, his wife meeting him in the metropolis Ensign Thomas Roddey Miller. U. S. N. R. F., of Florence, formerly of Rock Hill, has been appointed state risk officer of the American Legion. This organization, which will be permanently formed in this state at a meeting to be held in Ti.1?, 1 C 17 la Anmnngs/I rst I' IUI CHWC, U Ul J AVi I , 10 }SVS?7^Vft VI veterans of the recent war. Chester Reporter, July 7: The following marriage licenses were issued last week by Judge of Probate A. W. Wise: Mr. Minor Mahaffey and Miss Carrie McKinney, both of Lando; Mr. Edward Myrick and Miss Annie May Dunn. bAth of Chester; Mr. Clyde Killlan and Miss Bertha Wilson, both of Great Falls; Mr. George M. Williams and Miss Eunice E. Smith both of Fort Lawn. Mr, Wm. L. Haywood and Miss Elizabeth Yarborough, both of Chester: Mr. Ed. Hopper and Miss Chester, September 14th and run a Pearl Sims, both of Great Falls; and Mr. George Shuping and Miss Lula Marree, of Great Falls ?.Mr. Charles S. Allen, of Cedar Brook, N. J., will be in charge of the music at the "Gypsy" Smith, Jr., revival that is to begin in month. Mr. Allen writes that he will use the Billy Sunday Song book, which contains all of' the various melodies that have been used with such^flne , resuTts'tn that great evangelists meet- ' ings At the meeting of the county supervisor and commissioners today Mr. S. B. Crawford was elected weigher at Fort Lawn. The election of a weigher for Chester was postponed? Broad River township in York county has become headquarters for the Illicit manufacture of liquor; and the country fairly teems, or has been fairly teeming, witn^tiiis. wnat manes a , revision of this statement necessary to the latter form is the fact that the good people of the township, led by Magistrate Smith, and ably assisted by good men from other parts of the county, have arisen in their mlghC and are doing their utmost to put a stop to the whole business with considerable success. That's what it requires to effect a reform?public sentiment. No matter how bad a situation may be, let public sentiment crystalize and improvement will soon set^ln. The example of Broad River township is referred to Chester county 1 township, as the liquor business, put to rout in the western part of York county, and under the constant surveillance of officers in the mountain districts, is very likely to move down this way, and the violation of law on such an extensive scale that Broad River township has been treated to be undertaken here. The agricultural bureau of the Chamber of Commerce met Saturday to consider the advisability of securing' a government cotton grader, and after some discussion it was voted to raise $1,600 from the farmers for this purpose, thts sum to be supplemented by $500 from the U. S. government, which will pay the salary of an experienced grader for one year. The plan is to collect $200 from each township for this purpose and eight farmor<2 in each of the eizht townships wili be called*upon to give $25 each. The committee to raise the funds is to consist of one from each township, and as follows: E. W. Gibson, Itossville; C. C. McAliley, Chester; A. M. McKnown, Blackstock; H. W. Miller, Hazelwood; N. H. Stone, Halsellville; Dan S. Hollis, Lewisville; H. C. Worthy, Baton Rouge; R. H. Westbrook, Landsford. Messrs. C. C. McAliley, T. J. Pressley, and J. R. Rcid constitute a central committee. Gaffney Ledger, July 5: After being bitten on the leg yesterday morning, L. R. Callahan, one of the railroad engineers stationed here, seized a hound dog by the hind legs and beat his brains out on the sidewalk on Frederick street near the railroad crossing. Mr. Callahan had planned to go to Hcndersonville, N. C., to spend the Fourth of July, and he was on the way to the station to go off on train No. 29 After his unfortunate mishap Mr. Callahan decided to go to Columbia to take the Pasteur treatment. As Mr. Callahan was proceeding along Frederick street sidewalk a large hound dog came up behind him. Without barking or making a sound of any kind the animal took hold of the engineer's leg. Mr. Callahan turned and - * " * * Ua seized nis aasanum uy me ucvn. uc held the dog for a few minutes looking around for a police to have it shot. As ft happened, no officer was near at the time, so the railroad man picked the dog up by the hind legs and dashed his brains out on the sidewalk W. C. Black well, whose jaw was broken by a rock thrown by Dewey Harton last week, remains in a serious condition at the City Hospital Lieutenant William B. Gaines arrived in the city Thursday to spend two weeks furlough with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Gaines. He has just returned from overseas service In the quartermaster corps J. Harvey Witherspoon, superintendent of the city schools, will leave tonight for New York where he will take a six weeks' summer course at Columbia University. Mr. Wltherspoon has already received the M. A. degree from this Institution and he is now working for the Ph. D With a business session yesterday that lasted considerably longer than had been scheduled, the imru annual convention or tne Boutn Carolina Rural Letter Carriers association, which convened Thursday morning, was brought to a close. Sumter was selected as the place for the next annual convention, which will be in July of next year. Officials of the organization said that the convention here was very pleasant and profitable. Much business in the Interests of the carriers all over the state was transacted. Before adjournment, a resolution of appreciation for the hospitality shown by Gaffney people was unanimously passed. At the business meeting yesterday the following officers were elected; president, D. C. Hayden, Orangeburg; vice president, Stanley Wilson, of Gaffney; and secretary and treasurer, Arch C. Owens, of T onenno The uauitiio, 1 IK TVIU IV1 VltC COlUCUl for which a Gaffney man waa selected, was, 126; Lemons, 68. Bloomfleld Bryant of Spartanburg, the retiring president of the association, and H. Q. Crimm, of Moores, were named delegates of the national convention which is to be held in Louisville Ky., in Sep-' tember ."..John Shade, charged with operating an illicit distillery and with reckless shooting on the public highways, was released from custody Thursday under bond of $1,000. It is alleged that Shade is the moonshiner who fired .16 shots, presumably at the officers, when Sheriff W. W. Thomas and a posse destroyed a distillery on a branch near Green Bethel church a few weeks ago. Gastonia Gazette, July 7: Mr. J. D. Derr, of Dallas, route one, returned yesterday from' Hendersonville where he attended the state meeting of the N. C. Rural Letter Carriers' association as the delegate from Gaston county. There was a large and enthusiastic attendance The carriers went on record as requesting an initial salary of $1,200 a year, with maintenance fund of $600 a year and a 10 per cent increase on Initial salary for five years. Out of 1,400 carriers of the state, 380 are now members, being an increase during the year of 169 members News of a disquieting nature to Presbyterians and the city generally reached Gastonia early this morning conveying the information that Dr. James H. Henderllte, pastor of the First Presbyterian church of this city, had been called to the pastorate of the First Presbyterian church of Savannah "...Actual work is soon to be started on the North Carolina Orthopaedio Hospital Home and School. The plans and specifications will within a weak be placed in the hands of contractors by Mr. R. B. Babington, of Gastonia, prime mover of the institution for the care of crippled children with sound minds. It Is the intention If. .A 4k. ... ui ix&r. i>auixi0iuu iu anaiu mo wutract just as quickly as possible and by the middle of August he hopes to Bee the building under process of con-, struction Dr. W. B. Hunter was. this morning elected to the position of county superintendent of public welfare of Gaston county, the position created by the last session of the legislature. This position is one that em- i braces many duties, chief of which are those of county health officer and county attendance and truant officer. Dr. Hunter is now * serving with the rank of captain, in the 3rd Division in tho Army of Occupation, but is expect- . ed to arrive home soon Mr. D. M. Robinson was elected keeper of the county home vice Mr. C. C. Craig, resigned The Clara Mill baseball team defeated Clover Saturday afternoon on the Clara ground by the score of 7 to 6. Parker and Barnes formed the battery for Clara while Jackson and Grayson were for Clover. The feature of the game was Barnes' homerun in the ninth with the bases filled. GENERAL NEWS NOTES. Items of Interest Gathered from All Around the World. The Federal committee of Germany has approved ratification of the peace treaty. The American Red Cross has donated 200,000,000 yards of bleached gauze to civilian hospitals in the United States. The Alabama legislature Is in session. The Susan B. Anthony amendment is one of the matters coming up for disposition. More than 2,000 Union cigar makers of Boston wenj on strike this week in an effort to enforce demands for a wage increase of approximately 14 per cent. A oroclamation has been Issued from Dublin castle declaring all Sin Fein organizations and Irish volunteers in the county of Tipperary to be unlawful organizations. The strike of 2,600 street car men in Cleveland, O., has beer* brought to an end with the decision of the owners to grant an increase of 12 cents an hour in wages. William Skipper shot and killed his father-in-law, his mother-in-law and sister-in-law near Philadelphia, Miss., Sunday. Religious differences are said to have been the cause of the tragedy. Gaston county, N. C., is to issue bonds for improved roads in the sum of $500,000 this having been decided at a meeting of representative voters from all sections of Gaston-county held in Gastonia Monday afternoon. An apparent net shortage of $45,757 in the accounts of former Sheriff J. E. C. Bell of Henderson, N. C., has been reported. Bell resigned as sheriff a week ago and has not been heard of since. * Acting under authority extended by tho simrirv civil hill which nasseri con gress last week, the United States housing corporation is preparing to sell the 6,000 residences erected during the war In the vicinity of munition plants. The body of Captain Fryatt, shot In 1916 by the Germans for attempting to ram a submarine has been taken to England and interred in St. Paul Cathedral. National memorial services were held in England in connection with the interment. J