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THE PAGELAND JOURNAL Vol.7 NO. 33 PAGELAND, S. C., WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 9, 1917 $1.00 per year Submarine Problems Solved bj Naval Board, It Is Thought New York. May 5.?W. L Saunders, chairman of the nava consulting board, announcer here today that the board har forwarded to Washington plan: for dealing with the submarim problem, which, it was believed had solved the problem success fully. Mr. Sfliindprs who hue hoot sion naa been submitted foi consideration of the board and experiments with many of them justified, he believed, the asser lion that a plan had been found by which the submarine peril could be eliminated. Mr. Saunders was unwilling tc go into further details of the board's experiments, all data on the subject having been forwarded to Washington, but he said the public had a right to be informed or me piu^icaa u???i? toward nullifying the depreda tions of the German undersea craft. Mr. Saunders, in talking to a group of newspaper men, said that inasmuch as he was not dis closing details of the naval board's recomendations to the government, the statements he made were not military infor mation and would be of no in formative value to the German government. It is the board's opinion thai to cope successfully with the submarine problem, Mr. Saund ers said, aggressive warfare musl carried on in the enemy's tern tory. This included, in the board's belief, he declared, naval operations in the North sea with destroyers, submarine chasers i ?. 1 j mipmucii, ueis aiiu luincs, coordinated with devices to destro> submarines which the board haj experimented with and approv ed. Mr. Saunders said the plar suggested to the government in volved the possibility of lane operations. Without committ ing himself definitely on this point, the scheme he indicated included a military offensive against the Kiel canal, whicl would call for the transportatior and landing of any army agains this important German water way. German naval concentra tion points generally would he objective points in this suggest ed joint method of naval anc land operations. The plans submitted to the envprnmpnt Mr Qann/tnrc m? ..... .JUUIIUVIO serted, was not based upor theory, sketches or designs" bu upon actual tests "which hav< proved encouraging." The use of electricity is in volved importantly in the wholi idea of an offensive. The naval operations woul< under the plan be directed to ward bottling up the North sej as effectively as Great Britiai has blocked the English channel Mr. Saunders alluded to th< chairman of the naval consult ing board about two months supplemented his announce ment by sa3*ing that while th< submarine problem can not b< considered in reality to have been solved until the u-boat! have been destroyed, neverthe less numerous experiments hac been made along the Atlantic coast with highly encouraging results which led the board tc feel confident that a successfu solution had been reached. "It looks as though the sub marine problem has been solv ed," Mr. Saunders said, "noi only in theory, but on the strength of practical tests on the Atlantic coast." Mr. Saunders added that 50C inventions for u-boat suppres r "Make Thrift Fashionable" Houston's Slogan Washington, May 5.?In an 1 appeal "to the women of the 1 United States" Secretary Hous1 ton declares that they can do s their "bit" most effectually in 2 the national emergency by , practicing effective thrift in - thefr households. The appeal was prompted by 1 many requests for a statement as to the service women can ' | render the nation in the direc a tion ot producing and conserv ; ing agricultural products. i "Every woman can render im5 portant service to the nation in j its present emergencysays the appeal. "She need not leave r her home or abandon her home > duties to help the armed forces. 1 Every ounce of food the house wife saves from being wasted in her home?all food which she I -I-!1 J * t ui iicr cunuren proauce in llie ? garden and can or preserve? ; every garment which care and skillful repair make it necessary > to replace?all lessen that house hold's draft on the already in sufficient world supplies. | "To save food the housewife i must learn to plan economical and properly balanced meals I which, while nourishing each I member of the family properly, do not encourage overeating or , offer excessive and wasteful > variety. i "Waste in any individual household may seem to be in > significant but if only a single . ounce of edible food, on the , QvproffP ic allrtwpil to snail or be thrown away in each of our i 20,000,000 homes, over 1,300,000 pounds of material would be t wasted each day. I "("Mnlhincr ic lornroUr or? nrrf't J w 1UIK.V1 f all "fill cultural product and represents 1 the results of labor on the sheep . ranges, in cotton fields and mills . and factories. Women would do well to look upon clothing at this time more particular from , the utilitarian point of view. "Leather, too, is scarce and t the proper shoeing armies calls i for great supplies of this ma. terial. [ "Employed women, especially . those engaged in the manufac, ture of food or clothing, also I directly serve their country and , should put into their tasks the enthusiasm and energy the im . portance of their products war F rants. s "While all honor is due to the . women who leave their homes to nurse and care for those , wounded in battle, no woman should feel that, because she I does not wear a nurse's uniform, . she is absolved from patriotic . service. I "Democratic thrift in your ? homes and encourage thrift , among your neighbors. Make , saving rather than spending I your social standard. "Make economy fashionable . lest it become obligatory." north gateway of the North sea 1 as Germanv's hornet's nest, or "rat hole" for submarines, and 5 said this nest must be blockaded and penetrated and its u-boat ini mates destroyed and German t naval bases also dealt with et2 fectivelv. The naval consulting board believed sufficiently in what had 2 been discovered and Dlanned, he said, to feel justified in notifying 1 the people that the submarine > fear might be allayed. The i project now before the govern i ment could be carried out "with I. in a reasonably short time," he e said. German and Austrian, Inrane, Held in Jail Columbia, S. C-, May 3.?An insane German citizen and an insane Austrian citizen are be-1 ing held in two county jails in this state. The German is in the Richland jail and *he Austrian in the Chester jail. These two men who have been adjudged lunatics and fit subjects for insane hospitals bv the probate courts of Richland and Chester Counties, were found by a member of the staff of the State Board of Charities and Corrections, who recently inspected both these jails. The probate courts in each of the counties had notified Governor Manning as required by law that thev had adjudged these foreign citizens insane. Gover nor Manning, in turn, as provided bv the statute, has refer red the case to Robert Lansing, Secretary of State, with the re quest that he take up the matter with the Ambassador of Germany and Austria. Count von t Bernstorff, acting on the request of Secrtary Lansing, sent the case of the German lunatic to the German Consul at Atlanta for investigation. In the passports were tendered von Bernstorff and all the German con sular agents, leaving the case of the insane German in the Richland County jail undeter mined. The case of the insane Austrian in the Chester jail was also left unsettled because Of the withdrawal of the AustrianAmbassador. The State Board of Charities and Corrections took up yestofl Utty Willi lUC OTOic trwpn?? the Insane the making tempo rary provisions for caring at the hospital for these two insane foreigners, both of whom might possibly improved under treatment. The State Hospital has asked Attorney General Peeples for an opinion on whether or not it could receive these two foreigners in view of the fact that the severino- r?f relations between the United States and Austria and Germany makes it practically possible to carry out the law. Fine Opportunity for Pageland School Mr. W. H. Hand, State high school inspector visited the school here a few weeks aao and below is a letter written by j him to Mr. S. A. Sellers, chair-/ man of the school board: Dear Sir: Not until this morning have I had the time for a conference! with Superintendent Swearingen about vour financial situation at Pageland. He instructs me to say to you and to your people that if you will vote an additional two mills for the support of your school before June 1, 1917, he will give the district; out of funds in his hand as much j as the two mill levy adds to; your resources up to a limit < f $360. This offer is even better than I hoped for when I met your board a few days ago. I congratulate you on this liberal of fer, and I urge vou to get to, work at once with your petition asking for the election. Surely your people would not for a moment think of turning down so generous a proposition. I should he glad to have you i keep me informed as to the progress vou are making. Very truly yours. W. H. HAND. s Roll of Company "1" Below is given the names lantl rank of those constituting Company "I" which was recent ly assigned to guard dutv at Charleston. Captain, William L. Gillespie. 1st Lt., William A. Malloy. 2d Lt, Claud G. Hammond. 1st Sgt., William H. Laugh rige. Supply Sgt., John F. Davidson. Mess Sgt., Harvy L. Burnette. dergents: Charles I. Pegues, William C. Coward, Herbert F. Jones, William E. Sellers. Corporals: Edward M. Han cock, John J. Tracv, Robert M. McDonald, William B. McAllister, Richard W. Seegers, William C. Baker, Harrison H. Hartfield, William G. Camlin. Cooks: John S Douglass, Parrot W. Bell. Buglers: Samuel H. Cato, Malcolm C. Baker. Mechanic: John Hilton. First class Privates: John E. Baker, Alger Black well, Harry ?1. Bryant, Dewey H. Burch, ^llie Caulder, Paul Davis, William V. Gibson, Lenson C. Graves, Tarlton B. Harley, Andrew J. Huntley, Fred Hunne3*cutt, Julian A. McLeod, Barnwell E. Pegues, Evan D. Vaughn. Privates: Wade C. Armfield, Lonnie E. Blakeny, Thomas A. Bundy, John D. Cato, Samuel W. Camlin, Lawrence E. Caul de'r, Elbert B. Coward, Arthur F. Crapley, Frederick O. Gaskins, Ed Griffith, Earl Groom, Edward T. Gullc^ye, John ^ Hunter, jMaxie H. Jdhnson, Levy Kirklev, Baxter knight, Lonnie Lin ton, Jasper W. McBride. Thomas John W. Marsh. Roy L. Milton, Walter H. Munson, Ben L Odom, Carlton L. Phillips, Lee T. Polston, Frank Rivers, Henry M. Rivers, John P. Rivers, t, 1? ti-ii: rallies r. ivaiuiigs, uevvey 15. Shehane, Charles P. Skipper, Marter B. Smith, Herbert P. Terrel, Frank P. Vaughn, Will White, Therodore A. White, Harry L. Wingate, John M. Womack. Several more have joined since this roll was made. Foreign Minister of Brazil Resigns Rio de laneiro, May 3.?Dr Lauro Mtiller has tendered President Braz his resignation as minister of foreign affairs. The government has received information that the Brazilian minis ter to Germany has been order ed detained in Berlin and has ordered the detention of Adolpf Pauli, German minister to Brazil, who is on his way to Uruguay. Dr. Lauro Muller has been bitterly criticised in Brazil since the relations between the republic and Germany first became acute on the around that he was pro German in his sympathies. His opponents accused him of using his influence to prevent a breach of relations between Bra /a\ and Germany and demanded his resignation. Dr. Muller was first appointed foreign minister in February, 1912, and even at that time was attacked as being too friendly iu Germany, an accusation apparently based in part, at least, on bis German descent. He is one of the best known statesmen in South America and has made several visits to the United States. "I'm afraid," said the junior member of the law firm, "that we are causing our client unnecessary trouble." j "Oh, that's all right," rejoined I the senior member! "we'll charge him for it." Daniels and Kitchen Enlist a Privates "North Carolina," savs th Washington correspondent c the Greensboro News, "set th first honest to goodness exanr pies to gain recruits for the arm and navy, when Josephus Dar iels Jr., son of Secretary ot th Navy, walked into a recruitin station and enlisted in the mc rine corps, and at the same tim Mills Kitchin of Scotland Necl son of Majority Leader Claud Kitchin, went to Fort Myer, Va and signed up as an enliste man in the army. This actio on the part of the two Norf Carolina patriots probably sets precedent for young men enlisl ing who could have command ed influence to secure a cone mission as an officer. "Nearly every Senator an Representative and others hig] in political life of Washingtoi who have sons of military age have secured commissions fo their offsprings. But Kitchn and Daniels have set a most ex cellent example and one tha will do more to secure real sail ors and soldiers than anv othe one thing since the war started by casting aside the most power #..i ?i:?: ? i " ? iuj pujiucui miiuence in Wash ington and taking their chance along with those who have n< influence." Congressman Pou of th< Raleigh district says: "My young son volunteerei without my knowledge. By his own efforts, without aid from an) one, he has secured bis commis sion as second lieutenant of cav airy in the officers' reserve corps I confess I am proud of the boy*! * n Chile's Minister Seeks Passport London, May 3.?The Chilear minister to Germany has de manded his passports, according to a Central News dispatch fron Amsterdam. The dispatch says: "A message received fron Berlin says the Chilean ministei to Germany has demandet his passports and announced s rupture of relations betweei Chile and Germany. The new: caused the greatest annoyanct I in political circles where effort were being made to avoid i break with both Chile and Ai gentina in order to preserv some friendships in South Amer ica. "Instructions have been givei for Chilean citizens to be treatei as enemv citizens. The dis patch adds that it is informei that it will be impossible in th present circumstances for th Chilean legation to leave Gei manv." Notice of Ejection State of South Carolina, County of Chesterfield. A petition ot a required num ber of Resident Free-holder and Qualified Electors of Page land School District No. 43 ha\ ing been filed with the Count Board of Education, in accorc ance with Section 1742 Civ Code 1912, requesting an elet tion on the question of an ir crease of 2 mills to be used In general school purposes, then lore. It is ordered that an electio be held in the said district, stat and county aforesaid on th 22nd day of May 1917 in a< cordance with Section 174i Civil Code 1912. By order County Board c Education this 2nd Day of Ma^ 1917. R. A. ROUSE. Coiinty Superintendent of E< ucation. s Rockefeller Fund For War Purposes e New York, May 3.?Rockefel?f ler foundation announced to e night that it nas appropriatevl ^ $475,000 to be spent in the United Stated for medical research y and humanitarian aid as the l" beginning of its work in the war e with Germany. K An additional $400,000 will go l" to continue relief activities now e being carried on board, b To aid the work of the Young e Men's Christian association in * the training camps to establish d for the army and navy $200,000 * * n has been appropriated by the h foundation. a An appropriation of $200,000 also has been made to the Rockefeller institute for medical rel" search for the Carrel hospital to be established during the next ^ few months in connection with ^ it. This model hospital of 100 n beds under the direction of Dr. h Alis Carrel is to be used to teach r the new methods of surgical n treatment for infected wounds. J* Proclamation r I, D. P. Douglass, Sheriff of I Chesterfield County, deem it * wise in the present crisis in this formal proclamation to assure s all residents of foreign birth that D even in the event ot the United States becoming activelv in3 volved in the great European war, no citizen of any foreign j power, resident in Chosterfield , county, need fear any invasion . of his personal property rights so long as he goes peaceably about his business and conducts himself in a law-abiding mans nererty of any foreign resident unless by his own hostile acts he 1 made it necessary. I take this formal means of J declaring: to all foreign-born 1 residents that they will be protected in the ownership of their property and money, and that 1 they will be free from personal j molestation, so long as they obey the laws of the .State and 1 nation and ordinances of the 1 towns. I urgently request all our peoe pie refrain from public discuss sions of questions involved in 1 the present crisis and maintain a calm and considerate attitude e toward all without regard to their nationality. Let it be understood that j every citizen owes undivided allegiance to the Flag, that he is expected to loyally fulfil all 1 obligations which citizenship u and residence impose upon him, e and that any act, however slight, tending to give aid or comfort to ihe enemy, is treason, for which severe penalties are provided in addition to that punishment which public opinion inflicts upon the memory of i- all traitors in all lands, s I). P. DOUGLASS, Sheriff of Chesterfield County. v Little sister had not been well. I- and had been especially trying il to small Johnny all day. Final* \xr Kic /vunn <*n /?n.l IJ 1IIJ ^III1VIIV.\. \ UIIIV IW All! tlMI. ?- "Mother," he asked, "don't ,r you want little sister to be a i* good wife like you when she grows up." n "Of course," said his mother, e "Well, you make me give e everything to her 'cause she's - littler'n me. Hut you're litller'n S. father, and you give him the best of everything." >f And, before his mother could move, Johnny tore the train of cars from the screaming baby. "If we don't begin to train her, 1 she'll be a terrible wife," he said as he slammed the door.