The Dillon herald. (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, February 21, 1918, Image 1

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W Slijp ItlUrn iimtlb. n ill! milIII> 1IN. THE DILLON HERALD, DILLON, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY MORMNO, FEBRUARY 21, 1918. VOL. 22. NO. 15. PUBIS UIO HAPPENINGS OTTERS nV KBGULAR ORRESPONl/TNTS. s of Interest to Herald Ebb and XTlow of the Human Tide. Fork !v - Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Dubose and :1 little daughter Sadie spent the week f?-. end with relatives at Marrietta, N. Mr. W. K. Fort spent Saturday C- and Sunday with his daughter. Mrs. F. W. Carmichael of Rowland, N. C. Mr. J. T. McQueen and Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Atkinson and children pent Sunday and Monday in Cameron, N. C. ? E. W. Fort left Monday for Guilford College after spending a few days at home. Mr. and Mrs. Jasper Quick entertained the young folks with a partyFriday eyening. Music, conversation anil games amused the guest mntil late hours of the night. My. L. K. Bethea and family pent Sunday in Latta? with relatives. S Oak Grove Rev. J. B. Weldon preached a good ermon to a large congregation at | Bethesda last Sunday morning owing: to sickness in his family and bad j - - - "-v weather he has been able to fill his i Ik } appointment here twice only since .conference. H. T. Prosaer of the federal farm n bank at Columbia was in this ev^tion one day last week. A. George, T. E. Berry, Jno. C. es and J. S. Fair, attended court Dillon Monday T. E. Fore went to In t& - ion Monday on business. Mm /The (rood weather of the Das -->k' ^ "uas enable the farmers arouu e to make much progress with their term work. good many acres will be planted to Irish potatoes in Kirby township this year. Also more tobacco will be planted than for a number of years. It appears at present that this section will be its part in planting ample food crop during the coming season. Hp The scarcity of labor will no doubt jk * sause the farmers to decrease very considerably the acreage in cotton. Those who have corn are glad that they are not now compelled to buy meal and other substitutes to get oar. o Lake View Miss Alma Goodyear is visiting friends at Greenville this week. Miss Eva Rogers spent the week end with her parents at Fork. L. C. Floyd made a business trip to Wilmington Monday. Miss Daisy Page is visiting friends at Barnesville this week. Miss Ethel Hayes has returned to Raliegh. L. W. Temple is spending several days at Wilmington. ^ Calvary This section of country is very much, enthused over the high prices A# loaf fnKa/tan TStrn nnw Komo won! Wft AVMl WWVkVWt 4 n U 41V T? UO>* UO If VU1 j vp last week in this immediate section, besides the repairs of old ones. We expect to realize fifty cents per pound for our tobacco next summer. E. Pearl Wiggins and family speni Sunday Inst in the pleasant Hill see tion. Leroy Ford and sister Myrtle of 4 Nichols spent Sunday in this section. Say, Jack, you end Tom have an understanding with each other the next time you wish to call on yout h best girl, and don't get In each other's way. Such is not pleasant, unless it to mutually agreed to test whose part upid plays most for. The many friend of J. A. Lock, were shocked to learn of his death. The news reached here on Saturday last, yet one week prior to this time Mr. Lock was seen here and apparently in the best of health. He wag born and raised in this section, and was ^ ,' '-well respected by all who knew him. "n Jfe was very attentive to his church r /-* and the fraternal orders to which he belonged. Mr. Lock left this section several years ago and went to Conway. His married life has been but a few years, e leaves a young wife, mother, bro.. . ther and sister to morn his loss. The "W ' bereaved one have the sympathy of " uk. th? community. From Newwboj to Magnate St. Paul, Minn., Feb. I.?Back in the eighties. Bill Kenney was a newsmain chairman of the board of directooy in Minneapolis. Next week he will become president of the Great Northern Railroad. Louis W. Hill, on of the late James J. Hill, will refers. V SOLDIERS LEAVE SATURDAY Twenty-Three Young White Men go to Camp Jackson Saturday The first contingent of soldiers un. der the^aew selective service law will 1 leave for Camp Jackson Saturday. The men have been notified to report at the Court House Friday afternoon at 4 o'clock and they will be sent away on the 8:12 train Saturday morning. Following is a list of those who will make up the first contingent: Franklin C. Carmicbael. Wade H. Utley. i^hell Allen. Kufus H. Lester. Dunlup J. Utley. Alanta L. Jackson. Arthur CV Pnttlnfflmni ? *?..? **u vAWkiviiii v uuti/ iui young women to secure lucrative positions with the government. It takes from two to three months to complete a course at a. business college. The Herald has several scholorships in reputable business colleges that it will sell at a reduced price to any young boy or girl who wants to take advantage of this opportunity to enter the government service. Call at The Herald office and let us explain it to you. Mr. W. A. Weaver Injured Mr. W. A. Weaver waa painfully if not' seriously Injured by an automobile Sunday afternoon at the intersection of Main street and Rail; road avenue. A negro boy driving a | Buick touring car stopped his car i near the crossing to adjust some engine trouble. Without looking around the negro threw the car Into reverse and came back across the walk with considerable speed. The rear of the car struck Mr. Weaver 'with considerable force, knocked him ! down and passed over his body. Byjstanders shouted at the negro and ; he brought the car to a standstill. iThe wheels were resting on Mr. | Weaver's lower limbs when assis; tance arrived and several men lifted 1 i the car while others rescued Mr. I ncavei li uni ma yeruuua position. j ! Dr. W. B. Smith was soon on the, j scene and made an examination of ( ! Mr. Weaver but found no broken j bones. He was suffering badly from I shock and it will be several days' before he will be able to leave his1 bed. Food Administration Notes Mixed (lours containing less than 50 percent of wheat flour may be sold without substitutes acording to a statement by the United States Food Administration today. I Special rules governing the sales of I other mixed flours have been promut1 gated. Retailers are forbidden to sell j mixed flours containing more than 50 i per cent of wheat flour to any per! sons, unless the amount of wheat ] : flour substitutes sold in sufficient to; I make the total amount of such subs- i stttutes, Including those in mixed! i flour, equal to the total amount of wheat flour in the mixed flour. For {Instance, if any mixed flomr is purchased contain 60 percent wheat-flour 'and 40 percent substitutes, it Is necessary that an aditional 20 percent of substitutes be purchased. This brings it to the basis of one pound of substitute for e'kch pound of wheat flour. The other exceptions to this basis of purchase, in aditlon to that of mixed flours containing less than 50 per cent or wheat flour, are those concerning graham flour end whole wheat flour, which flours may be sold at a ratio of three pounds to Ave pounds of wheat flour; and a special exception, which may be granted , upon application showing the neces' sity, in the case of specially prepared ] infants" end invalids' food containing flour. />* ?? Rod Murchison Cariuicliael. Beaton Lane. ; Edgar Graddy Campbell. William Russel Parham. Erviu Liston Coward. Arthur Rufus Temple, i Claude T. Grantham, j Grady Alford. Brearley Morrison. Allen Lonnie Woodell. uorcion Miner. George Miller. | Wiliam Emerson Price. Samuel Julian Berry. John Nick. Rhett M. McGregor. Opportunity for Young Indies The government has issued a bulletin urging young women to enter 1 business colleges and prepare themI selves for government work. The : men are being called to the trenches and the government needs thousands of young women to take their places. The bulletin says: "Persons who have not had the required training 1 in stenography and typewriting are urged to take instruction at once, for the prospect is that the demand ' (for stenographers and typists) will continue indefinitely." The present nffpra an OT^lla.,? nnnn-tnnH .. c restraint. As one distinguished French officer expressed it, "they are a too anxious to get at grips with the t enemy." i( There still is no indication of the near approach of the expected big of- d fensive by the Germans along the linn t in France and Belgium. The operations consist almost entirely of mut- t uul bombardments and minor attacks a by raiding parties. The roar of the a big guns is greatest in the Cham- E pagne region on several sectors, par- s ticularly near Tahure, where one unit t of the Americans is fighting shoulder- t to-shoulder with the French. Likewise, all along the Italian front from f Lake Grada to the midle of the Paive i river artillery engagements are in \ progress. t Saturday night's attempted air raid a on London proved a failure, only one German airplane of the six that came j across the water reaching the capitol t through the heavy barrage sent up by f the British anti-aircraft batteries. One of the enemy's planes is reported d to have been forced down into the seajc as a result of a fight in the air with : r British aviators. a The armistice between the Ger-lt mans and the Russians has ended, ac- a cording to an atlicial communication ^ issued in Lerlin. In giving notice.of ti the termination of the agreement to | r icasc uusiiiiiieK, i ins communication ',> contains the grave stutement that f Germany resumes a free hand in' a every direction. Whether the Germans anticipate an immediate attack on the Russians has not developed, but tindoutedly there is tens? feeling between the German military ollicials ? und the liolsheviki by reason of the1 fact that L.eon Trotzky, the Rolsheviki foreign minister, has not met the j desires of Germany to frame a separ-; ate pease treaty with that country. I j Dispatches from Petrograd indicate; that German soldiers have declined to 1 robey their commanders to move to the French front and even have given battle to brothers in arms who endeavored to force them to do so. | Petrograd, at least acounts, mark- * ed disorders were still Drevailina. |there being indiscriminate shooting' |and looting. | An Amsterdam dispatch says that (1 i Rumania intends under certain condi-. ; tions to enter into peace negotiations j1 | with th? Central powers. ! i1 |, Tests For Candidates i| 1 The Progressive Farmer: j' This is campaign year and wejl again call attention to our suggested! I j score card for candidates, as follows: .< Character, maximum. 33 1-3 per cent < 'Ability, maximum. .33 1-3 per cent 1 Sound and progressive < policies, maximum. 33 1-3 per cent1 Total 100 per cent i In other words, it is important to know how a candidate stands?that his political ideas are all right. Dut |it is Just as important to know that he (has character bo that he may be trusted, and ability so that he may make, his ideals prevail. 'l AMERICAN TROOPS , L ACTUAL BATTLE i j PHOVK TO BK FltiHTKItS OF VKKY HIUHKST CAIJMItK I I Attempted Atr Raid on London A Failure. Uncle Sam's Boys Arc Kxecedingly Anxious to Fight ? ( | American troops in France now ore in battle on three sectors?on their 1 own line east of St. Mihiel, with the French in Champagne "nd on one of'' the most famous battle fronts in the J"' world, where ruined villages aud the' ' devastated country generally tell the tale of hard fought battles when the ' Uerm-aus pushed forward their line and ultimately were driven back by tilt. Vr?..w.H Everywhere the Americans are1 c proving themselves lighters of the:'] highest cullibre, winning eniomiumsjf from high French ollicers for their [ v business-like methods of warfare and v especially their skill in the use of artillery. Already the men are veterans for uotiiing the Germans have in stock remains to be shown them, except u great mass attack. Thus far ( everything that has been tried by the enemy against them has been discounted and in some instances doubly discounted. Stories from the front by the Asso- j. elated Press tell of the intrepidity of . the men in trench raiding operations 1 of their coolness under fire and in returning fire, the accuracy of aim of . the gunners and the intense watchful- I ness at observation posts to see that 1 the enemy obtains no undue advan- v, tage in surprise attack. The only criticism thus for heard f regarding the Americans is theif de- v sire to be up and at the enemy. Like their brothers in'the North?the Can- y adians?they are hard to hold in _ IHKS AT AT TO WHKKI< Kit. Williams Stricken witli Ap|x?plevy Whil?. Driving < nr Kb. Williams was stricken v. ith apmplexy while driving liis ear near 'lcMsant Hill church Tuesday afterloon and died in a few minutes. In he car with Mr. Williams were three nen, but no one was injured when he car plunged into a small ditch ml stopped. Mr. Williams and his party were '< turning from Lumberton and short > alter they passed Pleasant Hill hurch the car began to wobble and lien made a mad dash down the road, i was noticed that Mr. Williams was | tearing down on the accellerator and , me of the party cautioned hint , [gainst going so fast. Suddenly Mr. ] Yilliams lifted his foot front the act llej a'or and and the car slowed ' | town and eased of: into a small ditch \ .e " the road siili . Mr. Wiliatns fell ner in th" se:' and died in a few ninutes. Mr. Wiiliains was a brother-in-law', if Night Policeman Dave Hyatt, j. Three years ago Mr. Williams moved i< rom Dillon to Marlboro where he | vas engaged in farming. He is sur- . ived by a wife and several children, j, o ANXIOUS TO MKKT f.KHMAXS '1 ; Mirers Kind Trouble to Itostrain 1 American Soldiers. 1 Grand Headquarters of the French 1 triny, Feb. 16 (By the Associated 1 >ress. >-American and French troops ' or several days back have been hold- ' ng in unison the rront line trenches in one of the most famous battleields of the war, the name of which! s known throughout the world. The ' minediate impression gained in con-j ersation with both French and j Americans facing the enemy side by, ido is that the union is not nnlv of ighting forces but of firm purpose to ' kin victory by mutual aid. "There is only one criticism to be nade in connection with the Anieri- : ans," said a distinguished Freuch/oficer to the correspondent who spent 1 i whole day among the Americans tolding the line. "They are too anx- 1 ou8 to get at grips with the enemy." 1 American officers confirmed this, ieclaring that their chief trouble was 1 o restrain their men. It is inadvisable to designate the inits confronting the Germans, but .11 the men are bending to their task md they are anxious to have the peoile at home know that they are well 1 atisfied and determined to perform o their utmost the duties before hem. . "Tell the home folk that we are tappy to be in the fighting; the work ' s hard and trying, but that is why! re are here. Nothing could induce I is to leave it until the J?b is finished!] .nd the Germans are beaten." Ij Such, in substance, arc the ex- j i iressions of dozens of American roops no\> carrying on in the actual', ighting line. I As to the health of the men, to lay's record showed that there were ; inly three sick among the entire j orce, comprising several thousands, , md these are cases of minor imporance. Every care is taken to provide i .mple rations, hot when possible. ; 'his, however, is not always possible ] wing to the exposed position. The , ueu are fully content with this and ertainly appear Jit and well They | j iuve taken to trench and dugout lifeji ,s if l?orn to it. KFtitSTKA NT (il.TS 12 MO#HS 1 1 | 'hysit-ully DiMjUHlilit cl Itut I'lcleriWl 1 to Misstutr Facts ^ * 1' If Bob Kvitt, who was found guil- ! y in Federal Court here this week of11 he charge of falsifying in answering'1 lis questinnaire, had taken the 1 rouble to tell draft officials that he j1 van shy exactly five toes on one foot t' te would have saved himself a lot of,1 rouble. ' The Greenville News lias discover- ' d thut Kvitt is thus afflicted. ' The followig is from The News: ' Sentenced to serve 12 months in 1 he penitentiary on account of inak- ' ng false affidavits in his question- 1 laire. Bob Kvitt, a young white man vho formerly resided at Woodside ! vlthout the least trouble because all ' nill, could have been been exempted 1 >f the toes on one of his feet have >een burned off and he could not icve passed the physical examination, i rhe reason for his action in going to :he trouble of getting false affidavits 'roni bin wife and of ninkine mi? datementp himself cannot bo figured 3ut by court officials, when lit- could have been easily exempted on account nHhe condition of his feet. i Kvitt is the young man who claim-' pd that he had supported his wife for some time past and got her to sign an affidavit to that effect when she was sick at Durham atid did not know what she was signrng. as a matter of fact, he had contributed i nothing to his wife's suporpt but had been living with another woman at the mill where he resides. LENINE AND TROTZY Mm RUSSIA r.sl.l !!> I.KADKItS Si liKI NMI i: COl NTIl\ to Ilt'NS l.?iiiiH> j;ih1 Trol/ky I'niii'st Against <>?'riuaiiy*s .\?ti mi. hut Cluiin v 1 'mint i'v iw Uclitlnvt. i.ondon, Feb. I!'. Russia is now forc< <1 to sign pcaca upon the condition? proposed by Germany, says an dlicial Russian statement received liere today. The otheial siutc-mint was signed by 1'reinh r Lenine and Leon Trotzky, the foreign minister. It protests tgaim-t tlte German resumption of the war and says tlie councils of people's ' oimiiissioi<'*is is now toned to Lleclui'e its readiness to sign u peace is dictated by the delegations of the duaruruple Alliance at Rrest-Luovsk. It promises to give a detailed reply without delay to the German peace conditions. The st temcnt was transmitted through the wireless telegraph stations of the Russian Government to the government of the German Empire at Berlin. The text reads: "The council of people's commissaries protests against the fact that the German Government has directed its troops against the Russian council's republic, which has declared the war as at an end and which is do mobilizing its army on all fronts. "The workmen's and peasants' government of Russia would not anticipate such a step because neither directly nor indirectly has any one of the parties which concluded the armistice given the seven days' notice reijuired in accordance with the treaty of December 15 for terminating it. "The council of people's commissaries, in the present circumstances, regards itself as forced formally to declare its willingness to sign u peace upon the conditions which had been dictated by the delegations of the Quadruple Alliance at Brest-Litvosk. "The council of people's commissaries further declares that a detailed reply will be given without delay to the conditions of peace as proposed by the German Government. "(Signed 1 "For the council of people commissaries. LenLne, - ' "Trotaky" MOON INFLUENCE IS AUSl'KI> Ureal Night Uluminatro Have Nothing to do With t'mps, In tue farmers' almanacs you will tind caiilcs of dates proper for planing crops, killing hogs, and so on based upon the phases* of the moon, and liie Rural New Yorker is uuthority for the statement that many 'ai mers still adhere faithfully to this iucient system. To show them how tbsurb this it, it prints the following statement by C. F. Marvin, chief jf the United States weather bureau: "It is the general belief of seientsts that the moon has no appreciable influence on temperature, rain [all, or any other weather element, ji on plant growth. "Plant growth depends upon temperature, light, humidity and plantKind I [hit I) ill tlia coil nrwl in i lio air 1 ind its avaflab'lity. Obviously the moon neither mellows the ground lor fertilizes it, neitiier does it alter lie composition of the atmosphere; iieuce it affects neither the mechanial condition ol the soil nor the kind nr quanity of available plantfood. "If the moon lias any inliuence on plant growth it should seem that it must exert this influence through its light. Experiment, however, shows [hat when a plant is shadowed that t gets only one-hundredth of normal luylight, it grows but little better Lhan it does in absolute darkness. Pull daylight is about 600,000 times brighter than full moonlight; hence ane one-hundredth of daylight, already too feeble to stimulate appre eibly plant activity, is still 6,000 lime brighter than full moonlight. The conclusion is that, even in respect to light stimulus, the moon's influence on ji .n growth is wholly negligible." A Ni * Vork newspaper is in the midst of a campaign to secure jobs for men more than 50 years of age. In New York the age limit seems to be 50 and yet those who are employing the men of that age ar enthusiastic about the ability of the workers. It is declared that they are more punctual, use better judgement and do better work. One man past 50, who was graduated from a large university revealed the fast that he had heen out of a job three yearB. He had visited 780 places for work and the only thing that disqualified him was his age. Then the newspaper got him a job. He was promoted twice in a month and received two increases in- salary. $ . \ t'OJTliT OF (iKXKRAIi SESSIONS Negro t.rts I,?fc Se;it? i!?c f??r Killing M.i:i \v Is ? "Coiiju; ' i!vsi spring t f111 court of general scsions convonc.l Monday morning with Judge Frank II. Hary of Abbeville presiding, Solicitor Spears and Stenographer Kilgo w<to a* their posts. The docket wan . eiy light and the session lasted only a lew hours. The gru nl jury organized by electing Mr. ii. T. Elliott foreman and all bills, weie in th?' hands of the solicitor by noon. Jas. Moore, colored, plead guilty to steal ill ir an ifutnmoMlo f i < ?> Lane and also an automobile from H. K. Parliani and was given a sentence of la iftunth's for each offence There was onlj one other case, but owiii.s to the peculiar circumstances surrounding ii, .h .-e attracted more then ordinary interest. 0- the criminal docket is wi.tten ' Hoard Ford, murder, til) years." ?be story of which takes one back to the dark 'days if the jungle when man's passions and prejudices were controlled by ignorance and superstition. Hoad Ford is a typical African of the jungle type. iJettle-srowed, flat-nosed, thick-lipped, he is the reCinc.irna.tlOn of some ancestor of centuries ago who lived on superstition and died by the shield and the spear. Ford plead guilty to the charge of murder and asked the mercy of the court, but his story as told to several attorneys makes one marvel that such ignorance and superstition should exist in this day of culture and enlighten! ment. Ford slew his victim, so he says, because he "conjured" him, or (to use his own words, "because he took sand out of my tracks." When 1 his enemy took sand out of his tracks Ford claims that his mind became all . up-sci. stud he couldn't control himself. He debated over the mutter unit going to his enemy's house armed armed with ?. shotgun he demanded that he put the sand back. His enemy only laughed and Ford shot him to death. The negroe's story was i1 simple enough. He told it with such , I earnestness that one could not doubt his sincerity. In the depth of his ignorance and superstition he believed ! that his enemy was responsible for all ' the troubles that had beset him for many months and the only w&y to relieve himself of those troubles was to kill the man who kept the "spell" on him. But this idea or superstition is almost as ancient as Africa itself. It j was Livingston, the great explorer, j who wrote interestingly of the terriI ble effects of superstition among the Africans. In each tribe there was a priest or superconjurer who worked j on the feelings and passions of the natives. One form of conjuring was ; put "sand in the tracks" of an enemy. This was followed by sickness and death in the household, failure of crops, loss of cattle or some other \ calamity. The victim of these "spells" sought tht^ advice of the priest and for a consideration the priest "put sand in the enemy's tracks" and then for a smaller consideration hired some other native to murder the native who was supposed to be responsible for the origin of the lirst "spells". Dr. Livingston's re citai of the fears and superstitions of the Africans bears out the truth of the liKllicunation under which lload Ford was laboring and accounts is some measure for Ford's act in summarily ridding hiiltself of the man * who had cast a "spell" on him and was responsible for his troubles. % The Melting Pot In a nothern city the other day, six thousand dollars was realised from the contents of a .Nielting Pot that the women of the city hod begun for some patriotic cause. If course Dillon is only a small town, but her spirit of patriotism and of self sacrifice is not excelled by that of any city and there is no doubt but that she can do proportionately as well im anything that she undertakes. We i wish to emphasize that in contributing to the Melting Pot you are ashed for things that entail no sacrlftee I on you to part with. We ash for old gold and silver articles that are of no value or use to you uud that j no doubt have even been In lyour way for years; things too yalul ahlp tn thrnw oxuqv on/1 j lived their days of usefulness to you. Its true that you may have some that are dear to you from ussocia' tions and valued for their memories and we are not asking for these? 1 unless, you feel like making the saeriflce for the Red Cross. Will everyone who has even a haay recollection of something stored away or lying around the house that you knew Is gold or silver and that you are willing to spare, go before you forget and find it to help fill our Melting Pot? Remember its for our boys "over -yonder". ; You will find it in the window at I Hargrove and Halls. Contributors , so far are: Mesdames W. C. Totar, S. B. Stoney, Joe P. Lane, Lctie Bethea, D. W. Bethea. W. W. Rvmne, W. C Moore. D. K. Ford, Misses, Mary Carter and Marion Easterling. *