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*" tRje panther5 Heralb J ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1891. Thursday, January 24, 1918. ? The hardships caused by the war j are being felt; and it is our opinion that they have just started. We think people may as well prepare themselves for further sacrifices. The war may close soon, though we can see no eal reason for its doing so. To be on the safe side the people had I better make up their minds as to what is coming. With war not yet actually begun on the part of#America, and preparations for war not yet fairly under way, it may be assumed what conditions are going to be later on. We are not pessimistic at all, but facts may as well be faced. There is no reason to believe that America will not be in a state of war for! > months?maybe years?to come. j ****** The fuel administration's order - not allowing any industrial plants to * operate for five days from Friday to Tuesday, both inclusive, hit The Herald plant pretty hard, but we are not complaining. If the order will do anything' toward relieving the fuel situation, we will feel amply repaid. Inasmuch as our current is generated during the daytime at the cotton mill, which was closed down, our plant could not operate even on newspaper work. Under the order all printing dnwn hilt eStaUll&UULiCUlO ?C4V vivsvu VI" ? , were allowed to publish newspapers. As we had no current with which to operate the linotype and were forbidden to do job work, it pretty well put ns out of business. Monday was a holiday with everybody, pretty well, in town, and the spirit as well as the letter of the order was apparently kept. ...... Not many job printing offices in small towns have the privilege of filling orders for printing from a disv tance of 825 miles. The .Herald has received such an order from a gentleman who formerly lived in Bam' i berg. He now resides in the Middle West. Naturally, while a resident of Bamberg, he knew of the excelr \7- ; lent quality of job work executed by this office, and availed himself of the opportunity of having his printing done here instead of sending it to any . of the large cities, inasmuch as he received the same quality of work at ' / home. A few days ago, his supply of stationery running low, he fired an >y v order in to The Herald for "the best ,thing you have in stock." The Herald keeps in stock some of the finest paper known to the trade for just such discriminating customers, so this former Bambergian will soon Ifr . again be stocked with stationery "made in Bamberg." 1TSWA1X WINS ON 2nd BALLOT. ?' , 1 ?>... Chosen to Preside Over State Department of Insurance. f Columbia, Jan. 17.?W. A. Mc'* Swain, an insurance man of New/' r berry, was elected State insurance commissioner 'to succeed the incumbent, F. H. McMaster, of Columbia, who did not offer for reelection, on the first ballot this morning. Mr. I McSwain received 100 votes. The new insurance commissioner is a native of Cross Hill, Laurens county, being born there 47 years ago. He moved to Newberry 18 or 19 years ago, and has resided there : since. He began his business career as a bookkeeper, after going into the insurance business. He is now vice president and manager of the Security Loan and Investment Company of Newberry. He is trustee of the Newberry city schools, the only political 1 U -1 ,1 n ouice ne xxas evei xxe:u. nc x? a brother of Capt. John J. McSwain, of Greenville, and is married. When the joint assembly convened today the names of Sam M. Grist, of York, and W. A. Barton, of Greenville, were withdrawn from the race by their sponsors. The vote today, which was the initial one this afternoon and the second of the race, as one was held yesterday, was as follows: McSwain, 100; J. R. Fulmer, of Columbia, 12; Harry G. Cooker, of Darlington, 19; and S. L. Miller, of Columbia, 2. F M. Phillippi, of Columbia, did not re/ceive a vote. Trustees Elected. Col. August Kohn, of Columbia: and Dr. W. T. C. Bates, of Columbia, were reelected trustees of the University of South Carolina. B. A. Hagood, of Charleston, was elected trus tee of the same institution to succeed James Q. Davis, of Columbia who .declined to enter the race because of the feeble state of his-health as announced by Senior Kitchen of Fairfield. The university wanted a trustee from Charleston, which is not now represented on the board and Mr. Hagood was largely th* choice of the Charleston delegation Dr. T. A. Crawford and W. J. Roddey, both of Rock Hill, were reelected to the board of trustees of Winthroi ifr college, and D. S. Henderson, of J Aiken, was chosen to succeed the late Dr. E. S. Joynes, professor emeritus of the University of South Carolina. There were two vacancies on the board of the Citadel, the terms oi Col. D. A. Spivey, of Conway, and Col. E. M. Blythe, of Greenville, having expired, and there were four nominations, the incumbents and the Rev. A. N. Brunson, of Columbia, and Senator J. G. Padgett, of Colleton. There was only one election on the first ballot, that of Senator Spivey, who received 95 votes out or a total of 132. The votes for the other ? ? t>or?cro+f "Q Rrnn- I nominees weie. i au^i,.., ? son, 57; and Blythe, 53-. Judge Ernest Moore, of Lancaster, was reelected yesterday judge of the sixth judicial circuit, Judge Frank B. Gary, of Abbeville, of the eighth judicial circuit, and Judge Thomas J. Mauldin, of Pickens, of the Thirteenth judicial circuit. None of the judges had opposition. Statement by Mr. Wyman. To the Editor: A news item from Bamberg, S. C., appearing in "The State" newspaper on Jan. 23, 1918, contains the paragraph quoted below relative to a car of coal received by the toWn of Bamberg: "The car was diverted here by State Fuel Aministrator B. B. Gossett, who had previously given permission to do so to J. A. Wyman, Bamberg county chairman of the fuel administration, but Mr. Wyman did not care to exercise that authority and consequently Mr. Gossett himself came to the relief of Bamberg, which is greatly appreciated here." This seems to be an attempt to create the impression that as chairman of the fuel committee for Bamberg county I have refused and neglegted to provide coal for our citizens when it lay within my power to do so, and for that reason I wish to make the following statement: I have authority to divert only * - ? 1 rsn T.10 V Ko Ttrifllin SUCH cars ui cum AO ilia; uo tTAbUAM the county. There has been no car within the county to divert. Mr. Gossett has authority to divert coal from any point within* the State to any other point within the State, and he is the only one clothed with this authority. Mr. Gossett therefore at my request promised to divert a car of coal to Bamberg. I made this request on Jan. 15th at Anderson, S. C., personally to Mr. Gossett, who at that time stated that he would not divert a car of coal to us until other cities more in need had been supplied, as he felt that there was no actual suffering among our citizens. Certainly our situation was not as serious as in other cities. He stated that as soon as possible he would send us a car of coal. I did not expect a car for some time, but the recent order curtailing industrial activities evidently gave Mr. Gossett an opportunity to supply other needy cities and Bamberg also at an ealier date than had been anticipated. Therefore in accordance with my're A-j a._ n. quest tne coai was aivertea tu oauiberg. I do not want the citizens of my county to think that I have been unmindful of their interests or that I have failed to do my duty as I saw it. I have given my time, without compensation, gladly and willingly when called upon by the government, first as chairman of the fuel committee, . and then as chairman of the legal . advisory board, and in pursuance of the duties devolving upon me I have given the major portion of my time since December 1st,, last, to public , affairs, and only last week I went in person to see Mr. Gossett relative to coal for our county needs. It was on account of my efforts that the car of coal was sent to the town of Bamberg, and I have been assured by Mr. Gossett that the citizens of Den; mark, the industries of Bamberg and Denmark, and the Carlisle school, as well as the town of Bamberg would have coal as soon as possible. Mr. Gossett informed me of the diversion of this car of coal for Bamberg, and I arranged with the town authorities for its distribution. I am ' very happy to think that mv efforts ? 1 ?a ? i ? j ^ relieved 10 some exiem. uiie uumcam; needs for fuel of our citizens. (Signed) J. A. WYMAN. Chairman Fuel Committee for Bamberg County. , Liars! "Horses!" said the Yankee. "Gess you can't talk to me about horses. I once had an old mare that licked the fastest express on a thirty, five-mile run." "That's nothing!" said theCanuck. , "I was out about fifty miles from my , house on my farm one day when a I frightful storm came up. I turned 5 the pony's head for home and, do , you know, he raced the storm so i close for the last ten miles that I . didn't feel a drop, while my dog, - only ten yards behind, had to swim I the whole distance."?Jack-o'-Lan> tern. i DUPES OF DRUGS. New York Investigation Develops Horrible Revelations. What an insidious and terrible thing is the drug habit has been demonstrated in the investigation now being conducted in New York. A score of fashionably dressed women, several of them heavy veiled, voluntarily appeared before the investigating committee appointed by the authority of the New York legislature and confessed that they were oririiVfQ flfklina that they had U' "to , w been bled by unscrupulous physicians and imposed upon in sanitariums where they were not cured. A half dozen men were on the witness stand, one, a mere boy, the others in the prime of life. One nattilydressed business man of about fiftyfive years of age left the investigation hurriedly, explaining that he had to go home and administer the drug he craved. One woman whose fingers were encircled with rings, said that she was forty years old, but that she felt as if she had "lived a century." She has been taking morphine for ten years, following an oper&tion after which she was given the drug for ten weeks. She has tried "stylish sanitariums" and been " pronounced cured, but the "old cravings" always have come back until she would "suffer the tortures of the damned" and beg for narcotics. At ?TI-O o tnlrl that UlifcJ Silil 1 ld.1 1U 111 sue TTU.O I.u>u - she would be cured in two or three weeks, but no help was derived. Another witness, a young, handsome and apparently normal woman, said that a few years ago her father broke his leg. The physician to ally J the pain administered narcotics. The daughter broke down from nursing him and was accorded like treatment. The mother then acted as nurse, broke down, and was given "dope." Father, mother and daughter today are addicts and have wasted a fortune of $100,000 in vain Quest of a cure. A professional woman "well known to the public" prefaced her story with a plea for "a civic and humanitarian endeavor" to help the "persecuted victims" of what she considered a "definite disease." Narcotics administered by physicians after a delicate operation brought her into "slavery." That was in 1903. Two years later she was told that she was well. In 1912 she became ill and a hotel physician was called in. He suggested a hypodermic. She remonstated, telling him that she had been an addict. He said that there was no narcotic in the drug he gave her. Nine weeks after she discovered that she had been deceived. She developed all the symptons of the morphine slave. She was told that the same physician "had made addicts of scores of men and women." She went back.to New York "after three years of unutterable torment." After remaining in a hospital several months she came forth "a free woman, once again." Another woman, "elderly to the point of feebleness" said she had been taking morphine since 1889, averaging from 8 to 10 grains per day. "Have to take that much to feel normal you know," she said. Once she was quite wealthy, but it has all gone to the doctors and for the drug. She is practically penniless now. The last doctor she went to, when he found she had no money, took her diamond rings. The National Committee for the Study and Relief of Drug Addicts says that narcotics play a great part in recruiting young girls for white slavery and in keeping them there. It declares that "this relation has not been at all appreciated. The inevitable and intolerable torment which follows denial of narcotic drugs to one who has developed the disease of narcotic addiction easily Decomes a weapon ui uuciuuu emu. bondage." George Weston, once a movie producer of note, testified that in 1914 he fell 160 feet in an airplane, breakings legs, arms and nose. Morphine was given him and in two months he was an addict. He went from hospital to hospital in search of a cure, spending thousands in the effort. He went to the top of Mount Blanc in Switzerland, leaving all drugs behind, intending to stick it out there until he had mastered his desire, but failed. The next morning he chartered a special train to take him down the mountain. When he came to this country he finally found a disreputable physician who wrote him five-grain prescriptions for $5 each. He got in with a gang of drug fiends of the most criminal type from whom he bought an eighth of an ounce of morphine for $26. Thieves would bring him booty to exchange for the drug. He then went to a State institution in Ohio where he was nearly killed, o-nce being chained to the wall. He obtained the drug from one of his keepers at last. He got himself sentenced to a chain-gang in Florida to work out his salvation, but couldn't stand the strain. A little Birthday of Robert E. Lee. Georgia has honored the memory of General Robert E. Lee by making the 19th of January, his birthday, a legal holiday. Though its observance is confined to the banks and a few public institutions, and Confederate memorial organizations, this action stands in the statutes of the state as as a lasting memorial to perpetuate his memory in succeeding generations. Where ever there is a student of warcraft and of battles, the memory of General Lee is assured. An honor-graduate of West Point, the descendant of Revolutionary heroes, a soldier by training and inheritance; already distinguished by his military achievements before the outbreak of the War Between the States, he became in that four years struggle not only the commander in chief of the Confederate armies, but one of the world's greatest generals. He was not only great in military leadership, but great in character. When the war closed, and he received offers of princely salaries to link his name with commercial enterprises, he waived them all aside to devote the remainder of his life to the instruction of young men at Washington & Lee University. His well known utterance, "The sublimest word in the English language is duty," was the keynote to his character and his daily life. His was a personality too conspicuous, a career too great and a character too noble to belong to any section, and his memory is enshrined in the hall of fame of the nation. The other day in Liouisvnie, ivy. Dr. W. W. Landrum, well rememberer as a former pastor of the First Baptist church in Augusta, delivered an address to the Confederate veterans in the auditorium of the public library. His theme was "A Tribute | to the Americanism of the Old i South," and Dr. Landrum stated that ! it has been inspired by a visit to Columbus, O., where over the enI trance to a cemetery where 20,000 I Confederate soldiers are buried there is inscribed the words: "These are all Americans." "January, the speaker observed, i was especially a memorable month to the Confederate veterans because in this period they observe the birthdays of both Lee and Jackspn and commemorated the precious legacy of undying fame each left the Southland. "So long as wars of defense are honorable; so long as self-sacrifice impresses and loyalty inspires so long will the memory of Lee and Jackson be revered and the name of the ConJ Ttrwif f nr\ Viiorll 1 n I ItiUtJlclCe 5U1U1C13 uc milieu 111511 iu the annals of fame." Referring to the morale of the new army Dr. Landrum drew an eloquent picture of the old Southern home to which he ascribed the credit for the true spirit of the old South and the foundation of its ideals?"where religion was supreme, where men were gentlemen and women ladies, and where heredity and environment gave birth to character and courage." "As intensely American" he said, "is the South today. With a broader vision perhaps, but not one whit less loyal to ideals and traditions. The sons of the South will do their duty in the war today. 'We shall win the war. America will accomplish that stupendous result and in the accomplishment there will be glory enough for all; there will be no dissension in giving a share of the credit to the sons of those who wore the gray." As thp blue and the erav of the sixties have merged in the khaki of today, so the North and the South have been fused into Americans in this world-war, and with a common heritage of valor and patriotism, and the same lofty ideals of courage and love of country, and the soldiers of this great united nation can on this anniversary of the birth of the heroic leader, stand at attenton and sulute the name of Robert E. Lee.?Augusta Chronicle. , while ago he unsuccessfully tried to kill himself. Many other horrible stories were related voluntarily. The information and subtle growth of drug habits is often derived I from use of narcotics in regular medical treatment, as the testimony cited tends to show. It does not suffice to declare the use of narcotics a crime and to treat addicts as vicious because the habit prevails among a criminal element. The drug habit is first of all disease. The methods employed to check it should be corrected, rather than punitive. If it could be discovered to what extent the habit is encouraged and developed by physicians' prescriptions, it would be possible to take remedial action along that line by legislation j restricting to a greater extent the pathological use of morphine and other habit-forming drugs. The federal statutes on this subject have effected a great deal in the way of correction, yet it is evident that much remains to be done.?Greenville News. Iqm ^ *' ( jQ^MDIG QJUB with. 10 cents and jfMFfJi/) in i50 weeks dtiW ? /J& HAVE 4F? Come In. START WITH A DIME AND INCREASE YOUR DEPOSIT A DIME EACH WEEK. OR YOU CAN START WITH A NICKEL. OR WITH 2 CENTS OR! CENT AND INCREASE THE SAME AMOUNT EACH WEEK. IN 50 WEEKS 10-CENT CLUB PAYS $127.50 K-f.FNT CLUB PAYS 68.75 2-CENT CLUB PAYS 25.50 1-CENT CLUB PAYS 12.75 IF YOU WISH TO MAKE THE LARGEST PAYMENT FIRST AND DECREASE YOUR DEPOSITS EACH WEEK YOU CAN DO SO. IT COSTS NOTHING FOR YOU AND YOUR FAMILY TO JOIN THE CLUB AND IS A SURE WAY TO WEALTH. COME IN AND JOIN TODAY. ' WE ADD 4 PER CENT INTEREST Peoples Bank I BAMBERG, S. C. j BHmnsHnnHranHBHHBnnniBHi ? " * Help the Operators Serve You Better Telephone subscribers are urged to call by number and not by name. In a community of this size the operators cannot possibly remember the names of all subscribers; when you call by name you delay your service and ' hamper its efficiency. All telephones are known to the operators by numbers which are on the switchboard directly in front of them. The directory is your index to the switchboard and should be consulted before making a call. Call by number and help the operator serve you better. " v*jj SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY vLftJJ I PRICE CUT 1 1 | ON PARLOR SUTTS f f t * X f Y I now have 33 parlor suits which I am offering to my trade at a low;er ; ? J price than they can be bought at at a ^ the factory today at wholesale prices. V This Contract was bought last fall X before furniture as well as other ^ *; ^ merchandise commenced jumping in ?? price, and my contract holds good X only for 33 more suits. These suits ^ ^ are made up in 3 or 5 pieces, either X ?* fumed oak or mahogany, with mule ^ X skin upholstering on both seat and ^ <T back. I can furnish cuts and prices 4 upon request. If the goods are not ^ ? exactly as represented or even better, I will ask that you not take them out X y of your depot, but return them to ^ me, and I'll pay freight both ways. X Write for cuts and prices today be- jL ' , V fore it is too late. Freight paid on J all out of town business. i ' i IF. K. GRAHAM | " The Furniture Man." EHRHARDT, S. C. Cash or Credit ?* s " '' " .* ... y.' : . . r.V'':?