- ? " Wf ' THE PAGELAND JOURNAL Vol.7 NO. 47 PAGELAND, S. C., WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 8, 1917 51.00 per year . ???_ _ ?????~ I Germans Thought That War Would Be Over In A Few Weeks ] The Pathfinder. 1 Eternal God, but it is a joy to 1 see the Huns crazed and smash- < ed by the allie's titantic pile ( driver on the French front. It , is a joy to have such diabolical . methods of destruction turned , on their creator. The Germans believed absolutely that they could start this , 3 s . a? ? m I war ana hdisd 11 an inside a lew weeks, just as they did their earlier wars against Austria and France. An American doctor of German birth who was in Berlin at the time the war broke out informs us that he offered to serve in the German hospital service but was told that it would not be worth his while, as the war would "all be over inside of three weeks." The Prussian geniuses of blood and iron planned that they would pass right through Belgium unhindered, dictate peace in Paris and secure an indemnity which would make the war f the biggest success ever scored in the robbery line. Such a vast aggregation of warships, airships, mines, big guns, machine guns, poison gas generators, flame ejectois, high explosive shells, bombs and other engines of des ruction had they amassed in the course of many years that these warlords never entertained the slightest doubt that they could blast their way through to Paris. Thev knew their neighbors were not prepared and they be { lieved that victory was a fore 1 gone conclusion. They would [ never have ventured into the L struggle if they had even reft motely imagined that their opft ponents had any chance to wir. Every detail of their infernal plans was worked out in ad vance. They had tons of iron crosses all made to distribute | to the soldiers who first I entered Paris, and Kaiser Wil I helm boasted that he would eat his Christmas dinner there. Thev even made the blasphemous claim that all this murder and destruction was approved by the A1 might v. But they reckoned without their host. Little Belgium threw herself into the breach and saved civilization. The Prussian hordes were held up till the French and British could prepare; and now we see the advantage swung to the allies' side. S Tf ?a nAnf ^ ? ? ?1 ? m uu? me vjcimail who are having: to stand up and , be blown to pieces and the ( eternal justice of it is that they are being: blown to pieces bv the very same devilish means that they themselves so cun- ' ningly perfected. Thev are now having to take their own , medicine. War is being brought home to them; not the offensive ( war which they counted on; | not the war which was to saddle all the misery on the other side, but a defensive war in which it is they who must bear the brunt i of the suffering?a war which strikes at their heart, and in , which they find themselves in. deed lighting for their very ex- S istance. The mills ol the gods may ! grind slow, but they grind exceeding fine. Strong men all t over the world are having their t faith in Providence revived because they see that the Almigh- : ty is not going to permit the t scheme of these Prussian fiends p to prosper. Instruments are be I ing forged by humanity, under ) k the inspiration of righteous r wrath, which will utterly crush ^ these maniacs of destruction, I A , Beasley Gets the Puppy For a few issues past John Beasley's "Sketches" in the Monroe Journal had been missing. We were at a loss to know where he had gone but in Friday's issue, appeared the prob able explanation. He had been attending a lying school, and did not return until he had taken a post graduate course. As evi dence that he now holds the championship in his county we submit the following taken from Friday's issue of this Monroe paper: "The corn crop in this section bids fair to be the best ever. Much of the corn is about made, and a few more rains will make good corn in almost every field. Never before has the writer seen corn have as good color as this season. Nearly all of it has remained green from the ground up, and a big long ear is on ah most every stalk, and on many there are two.?Pageland Jour nal. "Such a report as this shows that Editor Tucker is fast asleep on the corn crop. Either he is jealous of real corn growing such as we have up here in Union, or else he hasn't heard of it, for if he had he certainly would not have thought it worth while to say anything at all about his old crop. Why down in Buford township, not far above Tucker's town, but in Union county of course, corn is growing right. Down there the otherday a boy climed a corn stalk to see how the corn was getting along and now the stalk is growing up faster than the boy can climb down. The boy is plumb out of sight. Three men have undertaken to cut down the stalk with axes and save the boy from starvation. It grows so fast that they can't hack twice in the same place. The poor boy is living on noth ing but raw corn and has al ready thrown down four bushels of cobs. Wake up Tucker." ino wonder people at the beginning of the war began to ask how an all wise Creator could allow such a monstrous inius tice, for it looked as if all civilization was to be ground under the iron heel of Prussian mili tarism. But gradually but sure ly the latent virility of the free nations asserted itself until by a word in arms, vowing her destruction and punisment. No wonder she is desperate; no wonder she resorts to every vile trick to try to evade the doom which is in store for her. Little did she dream that the Frankenstein war monster which she had built up with such pa tience and ingenuity was to turn and vent its vengeance on her. She believed that the shafts of destruction which she had called forth would strike only others, [>ut they were colossal boomerings which recoiled on hersplf Premier Lloyd-Georgy in a speech Ihe other night said: 'We have driven the great armv >f Germany underground. When a great army is forced to such tactics it is the beginning >f the end; it means that we are )ounding a sense of inferiority nto every part of the German nilitary mind. This is good for he war and it is good for after he war. As long as the Prus ians have an idea of superiority n their minds, Europe will not >e a decent place to live in >eace. It will be easier after his. The Prussian has many nrtues, but a sense of humility, s never among them But he is i : * 1- - '?.?w uviiik luiiKiu me viruie ot lurailily, by a fierce and reientess lash." Anti-Draft Meeting is'Converted \ Into a Patriotic Rally Monroe, N. C., Aug. 4.?The > proposed meeting of those who t objected to the sending of Unit > ed States troops broad to have c been held here todav was called t off. There was considerable c excitement in Monroe when the y fact became known that there < was to be a meeting in the court- t house at twelve o'clock of those ( who object to the United States 1 sending troops abroad, unless they volunteered to do so of 1 their own accord, the leaders 1 being of the opinion that such ] was not constitutional. ? All during the morning people ( from the cpuntry began to gath 1 er around the courthouse and j talked in groups, and at twelve j o,clock the majority of the i crowd repaired to the court 1 house, looking for some hot t speeches. But after half an < houu's wait, it was apparent that 1 there would be no meeting. 1 It was suggested that Attorn- 1 ey J. J. Parker, who is one of t the leading republicans in the 2 state, be asked to make a talk i and explain to the leaders that 2 the draft law as passed by Con gress was constitutional. Mr. ( Parker consented to make a 2 speech, in which he explained ' that while a republican at heart i he was with the President in 1 this crisis, and that he sincerely i hoped that the people of Union i county would back the Presi- < dent to the limit. He further 1 more said that the leaders of the i meeting had been mis informed 1 about the constitutionality of the matter, and from the ovation he received when he finished, it was evident that his patriotic j remarks had made a deep im pression on his hearers. t After Mr. Parker had finished, A. B. McCrorie, one of the lead- ' ers of the proposed meeting, an nounccd that the meeting had ( been cahed off but would be held at a later date, as he had ( invited ex Governor Cole Blease, i of South Carolina, to be the ' principal speaker today, but that a business engagement had prevented him from coming. The j opinion seems to be that the ( matter will be dropped, and that , there will never be a meeting. j Taking Watson's Measure Charlotte Observer. The Monroe lournal sizes up Hon. Tom Watson in what we believe to be a clear light. It states a manifest truth when it says that Watson, "the mental f pervert," is responsible for much of the talk in the South, es pecially in Georgia, about tlie constutionality of sending men to France to fight. The Journal quotes Doctor Johnson as saying that "patriotism is the last resort of a scoundrel," and thinks the constitution is "the last resort of a crank like Watson." The Journal judicially holds that "the distinction between being drafted in the army to fight on our own soil and to fight the same enemy to prevent his getting on our soil, is only a mental quirk which only a busybody and a natural born disturber like Watson would bother to make. A hair splitter is usually a time waster." it 3eems to have come easy to The ,, Journal to find Watson's meas iy ure. He is an inflection in con a sideration of which the country must have a feeling of sympa- c thy for Georgia. ^ ti Mrs. Quackeness: Am yo' r daughta' happily mar'd, Sistah g Sagg? I Mrs. Sagg: She shuah am! o Bless goodness, she done got a a husband dat's skeered to death t< ob her!?Life. Vill Spare no Step to Punish N Slackers Washington, Aug. 4.?Regis- v ered men who resist the select- n re draft law face military tl tourtmartial for desertion and a he possibility of execution for tl lesertion in time of war. The e vhole military and civil power c >f the federal government and ^ he civil power of States, cities ( counties will be employed to t, iring them to book. c This was announced in a i ormal statement tonight by p Brig. Gen. Enoch H. Crowder, s ?rovoss marshal general, in re- a >ponse to reports from North f Carolina, Georgia and Okla- ( loma of anti draft disturbances, t \s vet the power of the federal s jcvernment has not been in- t yoked by the governors of the t three States nor by the agents of t the department of justice- The t t>nLy official notice received in ^ Washington of tho HioinrKannoc - .. ?? V* ?t1 toting. Its dangerous. G. larshville Men Go On Tri] Monday morning automobile nth North Carolina license umbers began passing alonj lie street in front of this office nd the thing continued so Jom hat we began to wonder whetb rail the Marshville townshi] itizens had become suddenl; patriotic enough to start fo Germany in a body or whethe hey were on a peaceful missioi >f seeing the crops and devout ng the watermelons that are s tlentiful in this section. The topped here to get togethei ind when we hoisted the whit lag and went out we found Ze ]Jreen in the crowd and kne^ hen that the mission was a: uredly peaceful. We learne hat the Gilboa Farmers Unio lad planned an automobile tri hrough two or three counties c his State to see the crops, ej vatermelons, and learn whi hey could by observation sn nterrogation. Thev were hear id especially for Coker's farm j iartsville. A more progressive commui ty than Gilboa would be har o find, and these farmers an >usiness men, numbering sixt >r seventy perhaps, are all wid iwake fellows who are able t )rofit by example as well t ixperience. They sell mor >utter by parcel post than i )tber community in the countr >erhaps, and they are breedin ine cattle. We can not give eport of the trip as we failed t ;ee them on the way back, bi t goes without saying that the earned enough to pay for tb rip, though it is doubtful thi hey paid for all the waterme >ns they ate. However, the less a man talk he more he doesn't have to a] )logize. Report of County Supe nlng Api (Continued J. D. Smith, clerk of County 1 E. R. Knight, salary D. F. Brock, magistrate T. W. Eddins, salary Chesterfield Hardware Co., g John Ratcliff. gang A. Sullivan, superintendent o John Graves, gang T. E. Mullov, county com mis City Market, gang F. M. Moore, constable W. P. Oliver, gang G. D. Gulledge, magistrate R. A. Griffith, police W. N. Lee, magistrate J. W. Brock, constable T. W. Turner, magistrate The Jeffersonian, printing W. J. Davidson, ail J. N. Davis, constable G. H. Gulledce. R. & B. S. B. Rodgers, magistrate C. L. Melton, rural police anc M, A. Kelly, constable S. A. Teal, commutation Redfearn-Rivers Co., gang G. R. Knight, commutation P. C. McLaurin, rural police s F. R. Evans, magistrate Bank of Chesterfield, R. R. C Cheraw Chronicle, printing W. E. Parker, jail Theo. Winburn, constable W. ). Odom. ordinary fund Chesterfield Telephone Co., r Thp P.hpstnrfiplH I .nan Ins H. K. Linton, commutation R. A. Rouse, salary J. T. Grant, jail report Stella Minis, demonstration I. T. Grant, ordinary fund J. C. Douglass, right of way fc J. A. Turner, county commiss B. D. Burr, road wav T. H. Douglass, magistrate I. S. McGregor, gang L. A. Campbell, gang D, P. Douglass, salary (Continued ^-i-. ~ -y ) Kerensky Takes Reigns Aga'n s at Wish of Russia e Petrograd, Aug. 5.?Premier ? Kerensky has returned to Petru>, grad and withdrawn his resign:.gr tion. He attended a ministeri-.il i- meeting on Saturday evenin : p and afterwards conferred witU y various political leaders x M. Kerensky has issued a manr ifesto in which he declares that n he considers it impossible when r the country is threatened with 0 defeat without and disintegra y tion within to refuse the heavy r, task again entrusted to hitr, e which he regards as an express b order from the country to conv struct a strong revolutionary 3- government to carry out the d principles alreadv laid down. n p Will Make Effort to Retake >f Bagdad lt Geneva, Aug. 5.?The Gerd mans and Turks are preparing d to make a great effort to regain " Bagdad, according to The ^eco1 lo of Rome. General von Falkenhayn, who commanded the Austro German armies in Rou. mania last year, has arrived at Constantinople to take comy mand of the forces being ase sembled. ? The offensive, the paper says, ls will take place in the middle of e o n oepienmer. v% Out at the front two regiments, * returning to the tiinches, says Answers, chanced to meet. There was the usual exchange J of wit. \ "When's the bloomin' war go[e in* to end?" asked one north\\ .country lad. ?- "Dunno," replied one of the south shires. "We've planted some daffydils in front of our s trench." ' "Bloomin' optimists!' snorted 9' the man from the north. "We've planted acronsl" rvisor For Quarter Beginril 1st, 1917. from last week) 3oard l ^ ^ J 00.00 16.60 37.61 ang 8.40 5.20 f county home. 62.00 25.00 isioner 8.33 114.35 33.33 37.00 20.83 33.33 20.83 10.66 16.66 7.65 4.00 33.33 41.67 16.66 I constable 54.91 16.66 42.0O 26.40 12,81 ind constable 60.36 '>5.00 lou pons 114.00 8.75 4.50 8.33 15.0O ent 7.50 Co., bonds 56 00 132.00 100.00 25.20 20.45 70.25 >r road 60.00 ioner 8.33 25.00 12.50 04.82 8.17 125.00 oq last page)