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One Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1918. Established 1891.
BERLIN k STARVING CITY
BOSTON GIRL SAYS PEOPLE'S
NERVES ARE SHATTERED.
They Quarrel Over Trifles, But Are
Unit in Belief They are Right.
Interesting Narrative.
Fifteen months in Berlin?it seemed
like an age to a young Boston
girl, Josephine Marzynski, the singer,
who returned from the Prussian
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markable experience and an extraordinary
opportunity to observe
conditions. A little more than eight
weeks ago this slim and exceedingly
girlish young American made her
veritable escape from the German
metropolis. Only by the most desperate
and importunate efforts did
she obtain her passports. She brings
back a vivid picture of Berlin today
?grimly resigned to terrible privation
and resolutel/ determined to
fight to the end.
"Do the Germans still believe that
they will win the war?"
"They do!" she replied to my first |
Question. "The general feeling in
Berlin is that our allies are exhausted
and that a decisive blow will
have been struck before we become
a factor on the western front.
"I left Berlin just as reports from
Italy indicated successes of the new
pu offensive, and Italy out of the war
as result, and as reports from Russia
pointed to a peace that would insure
food for the starving people of
Germany.
"They were very, very confident of
the Russian peace, apd it was regarded
as the solution of the food
problem, which is really the biggest
nriA nroblem now bothering Germany.
v 'Peace with Russia,' was on the lips
of everyone, and.it was always said
with a smile that implied food.
"Food! You can not imagine what
the word means in Berlin. Morning,
noon and night the whole citly talks
food. The topic is discussed more
* than the war. Wherever you go,
you are greeted with some sort Of
comment on its scarcity and the efeffect
upon the speaker. And you
simply can not get food?as we
know food?in Berlin and the larger
cities. In tho smaller cities the
shortage is much more endurable.
Laborers Are Best Fed.
"Now, during my fifteen months
there I lived with very wealthy people.
Had I been dependent upon my
own efforts and purse for food, 'I
would have suffered even more than
- I did for the want of nourishing
food. They are able to obtain an
1 occasional goose, now and then some
eggs and occasionally some fruit,
r vegetables, butter an<^ cheese in excess
of the regular rations.
"Poorer people, who perform hard
work, were much better off in a way.
The Government saw to it they were
allowed proportionately much more
of the necessities of life.
"On the other hand, I knew personally
of the case of the family of
\a banker who was rich. Yet the family
was literally starving and suffering
more privation than the family
of a poor laborer.
"The 'underground' food supply
? on which the rich depended^ was
naturally costly in proportion to the
risk the farmers took in disposing of
it. Two dollars a pound for butter
and $2.50 a dozen for eggs gives
you some idea.
Operagoers Hungry.
"It was amusing at the opera to |
^ ^ee^jthe hungry ladies of society,
dressed in their finery and decked
with diamonds and conventional to
the extreme, calmly eating sandwiches
in the boxes."
"Did ,you notice any signs that
would indicate German weaknesses?"
,I asked.
"I did not," Miss Marzynski an*
swered. "You must remember Berlin
believes our allies are worse off
for man power than Germany is.
"And talk about 'giving comfort
f to the enemy.' Every utterance of
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American in criticism or opposition
of the war is published in full and devoured
by th^r Berliners. Lord Northcliffe's
speech?I believe it was directed
at Lloyd George?was read
with the greatest glee.
^ "I heard many rumors of dissatisT
faction among the peasants of Bavarvia,
but nowhere in Germany is
there any organized opposition to the
war. I knew many people opposed
to the war, but only as individuals.
They were continually deploring the
existance of the war, but never condemning
Germany's part in it.
"I also knew German mothers
were trying to keep their sons from
going into the army?a very vain
effort. The biggest mistake we can
make is to hold our enemy so cheaply.
"A young man in Berlin of well-tofln
fnllrc and a friend of mV friends
was notified his class was about to
be called to the colors. He promptly
cut down on what little food he had
been eating. In three weeks he was
a living skeleton. But they accepted
him.
' Toward the close of 1917, everybody
in Berlin thought peace was at
hand. I forget the exact date, but I
remember the occasion very well./The
Reichstag was in session. Unofficially
it had been given out that peace?a
German peace?was assured that afternoon.
"I shall never forget the spectacle
that followed. All Berlin burst out
into hysterical tears, everybody quit
work. The streets were packed with
people?all crying. Of course, it was
a delusion, but when the people realized
it there was no violent reaction.
"Toward the end of my stay in Berlin
I would often ask the women if
they thought peace was coming. One
and all as a rule would throw up their
hands and exclaim, 'Ach! We will
never have peace again. This fighting
business will last forever!'
A Division of Opinion.
"Another mistake we made is our
belief that Germany is not as a unit
in this war. I tell you there is no
such thing as division' of any kind
between the people and the Government.
In Berlin they laughed at
President Wilson for making the distinction
that he was warring upon
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tne uerman auiocracy auu
German people. And then they would
turn the table on me by saying:
" 'We are not fighting you Americans;
it is that President o? yours
who has led you blind ones into war.'
On the day that the President declared
war on Germany I was scared
to death?actually trembling with
fear. So that when a young American
boy called on me that afternoon
to go to a concert it was with the
greatest reluctance I permitted myself
to be persuaded into going.
"We had hardly sat down in a
street car, when, in a spirit of bravado,
he began to talk in English until
a stranger sitting next to him whispered
in Engilsh in our ears, 'Fools!
This is no place to speak English.'
It was a timely warning, and my
friend immediately desisted.
"But the funny part of the trip
happened when we changed cars and
went into the subway. A short, fat
young German was sitting opposite,
reading the news of our entrance into
the war. He laid his paper down on
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Choonited Stavds terday.'
Always Watched By Police.
"I was so firmly established as a
student, and because of my name
and my ability to speak German, I
probably escaped many annoyances
and insults. Nevertheless, I was always
under the eyes of the police,
and they handled me without gloves
on the occasions that I was obliged
to report.
"All Berlin is in what I call a neurotic
state of mind because of the
| war." Miss Marzynski went on. "Lack
of food and heat and the killing and
wounding of its friends and relatives,
and four years of wartime conditions
in general* have given everyone a 'flyoff-the-handle'
temperament.
"At home, in the street cars, at the
theatres, voices are pitched high.
Violent altercations break out between
friends over some mere trifle.
Everyone seemed hypersensitive,
ready to resent any fancied grievance;
and all jump at the slightest chance
to get their minds off the war.
"So that the theaters and concerts
are simply packed, and the race track
is black with people every day. All
amusements are running full blast
and at the urge of the government.
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large part of the audiences, but they
never appear in uniform. I supposed
it was to keep the stay-at-homes'
mind off the war and to keep secret
the location of the various regiments.
"It was at the races that I saw this
feverish nervousness let loose. People
go literally frantic over each race.
"Any change in the German point
of view as to the right or wrong in
their part of the war? Not a particle!
I can assure you the German
people never will be convinced they
are in the wrong about this war.
Dropping propaganda from airplanes
will not change over a single mind."
"Aren't there many individuals
who would work against the government,
if they could?"
"Surely, there are. But Germany
does not let them make any headway.
We'll never win this war if we hope
GOES TO WASHINGTON.
Former Denmark Pastor to Fill Pulpit
in Capital For Month.
Washington, Feb. 1 6.?The board
of stewards of Mount Vernon Place
Methodist church, acting with Dr.
Harry M.* Canter, presiding elder,
have secured the services of the Rev.
H. G. Hardin, a brother of the retiring
pastor, the Rev. Edward K. Hardin,
D. D., to fill out the unexpired
portion of the conference year, due
to the assignment of the latter to the
pastorate of Central church, AsheviTle,
N. C. The Rev. H. G. Hardin
will supply the pulpit of .Mount Vernon
Place during the month of
March. ,
The new pastor is not a total
stranger to the congregation of the
Mount Vernon Place church. During
a visit to his brother here a year
or two ago he preached at one of the
Sunday services and the impression
he made then is responsible for the
committee's invitation to him to
serve the church at this time. His
church at McColl, S. C., generously
agreed to grant him leave of absence
to take up the work here. He will
arrive in Washington during the
week beginning February 25 and Dr.
E. K. Hardin will leave for Asheville
during the same week.
Rev. H. G. Hardin has many
friends and acquaintances in Bamberg
county, who will be interested
in the above Washington dispatch.
He was pastor a few years ago of
the Denmark Methodist church, and
has preached a number of times at
Trinity church in this city. He impressed
his acquaintances here as being
a young preacher of unusual ability,
and it is no surprise to them to
know that he has been called upon
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Washington churches.
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Transports Carry Books to Troops.
The overseas service of American
Library Association is in operation.
Although space is extremely valuable
aboard transports, they have been
provided with bookcases holding
collections of books which are used
as circulating libraries on the way
over. The cases are emptied at port
of debarkation and the books sent
to tSe men in the field.
As a means of further increasing
the supply of books among the overseas
forces, the association plans to
have each soldier carry a book in his
kit, to be put in circulation when he
reaches the other side. <
Germany will give in before we sacrifice
our men.
"Berlin is no longer the beautiful
city you saw when you visited it,
mamma," said the young singer suddenly
turning to her mother. "Once
its proud boast was that it was the
cleanest city in the world.
Berlin a Filthy City.
"Today the erstwhile spotless
streets are filthy, buildings are covered
with dirt, windows black, garbage
accumulates in the back yards
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"There is no pleasure living in a
German home these days. If a window
is broken you must board it up.
Servants can not be had; they've all
gone to the munition factoriee. Sitting
down to a meal, of course, is a
farce.
"You can only have hot water on
Friday, Saturday and Sunday, providing
you have the fuel to heat the
water.
"Everybody travels in the street
cars, since all automobiles have been
commandeered. I had to literally fight
my way out of Germany. I would
not have remained there after we
had declared war had not folks here
invested so much in my musical education.
"Last October it became deadly
plain a winter of frightful suffering
was ahead for everybody. They did
their best to stay me. But my persistence
overcame their violent objections,
and after stripping me of
everything except my money and personal
belongings, they allowed me to
go. Believe me, when I reached Copenhagen
I did nothing but eat for
days.
Sausage and Mothy Beef.
" 'Mein Gott! Two kinds of meatl'i
I shall never forget the stupefied
amazement of the guests at the
'spread' arranged for the students
and myself just before I left Berlin.
And the two kinds of meat were sick-i
ly sausage and mothy-looking beef."
"It's a wonder you have not been
impressed with the German viewpoint?"
I suggested.
"Nothing doing on the German
viewpoint!" declared Miss Marzynski
vehemently. "I am for the good
old U. S. A. first, last and always!"
FIELD DAY PROGRAMME.
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Annual School Events to Be Held on \
April 11th and 12th.
The annual field day events will bej
held this year in Bamberg on Thurs-j
day evening, April 11th, and Friday,'
April i.2th. The field day committee!
has prepared a very attractive pro-!
gramme for this annual school occa-j
sion. Last year the field day was aj
tremendous success, and it is hoped j
by those who have the matter in I
charge that every school in the coun-j
ty will participate this year, and!
make field day the biggest event everj
held by the schools in Bamberg coun-j
ty. The following is tfye programme
in full: ..
Thursday Evening, April 11th.
At the Bamberg school auditorium.
Graded aand high school declamation
and recitation contests. Each school
will be allowed one boy in the high
school and one in the graded school
declamation contests. Each school
will also be allowed one girl in the
high and one in the graded school
contests.
Friday, April 12th.
9:30 a. m. Assembling of the
schools of the county in the auditorium
of the Bamberg graded school.
9:40 a. m. Address of welcome.
Response. Announcements.
10:00 a. m. Contests in the following
subjects: English composition,
English grammar, arithmetic,
algebra, geometry, geography, reading,
spelling Latin, and general science.
12:00 m. to 1:00 p. m. Dinner.
(Promptly at one o'clock the schools
will come together for a parade to the
athletic field.)
1:00 p. m. to 4:00 p. m. Athletic
events.
4:30 p. m. Announcemnts of winnprs
and awarding of trophy cups.
MENTAL CONTEST.
Class A, high school.?English
grammar, analysis of sentences and
parsing of words. Theme writing?
on some topic of today. Arithmetic
?percentage and interest. Algebra
1st?through fractions. Algebra 2nd
?to simultaneous quadratics. Plane
geometry?books I-II. Solid geometry?books
VI-VIII. Latin?Caesar,
books I-III. General science?pages
1-232. History?West's modern
world, to part VI.
CLASS B.
5th, 6th, and 7th grades. Arithmetic,
5th grade?Smith's Advanced,
pages 1-100. Arithmetic, 6th grade
?Smith's Advanced, pages 100-164.
Arithmetic, 7th grade?Smith's Advanced,
pages 164-283. Grammar,
5th grade?Kinard & Withers', to
page 242. Grammar, 6th grade?
Analysis of sentences and parsing of
nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs.
Grammar, 7th grade?analysis of
sentences and parsing of words.
Spelling, 5th grade?Arnold's Mastery
of Words, to page 82. Spelling,
6th grade?Arnold's' Mastery of
Words, to page 128. Spelling, 7th
grade?Arnold's Mastery of Words,
part 11 to page 38. Geography, 5th
J grade?Groups of States with capitals
and chief cities. Geography, 6th
grade?Leadiftg occupations with the
chief products of the different States.
Geography, 7th grade?Questions on
capitals, forms of government, leading
occupations, and the chief products
of the countries now at war.
CLASS C.
1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th grades,
subtraction, multiplication division.
Arithmetic, 4th grade?Addition,
subtraction, multiplication, division.
Arithmetic, 3rd grade?addition, subtraction
together with multiplication
tables. Arithmetic, 2nd grade?addition
and subtraction. Reading, 4th
grade. Reading, 3rd grade. Reading,
2nd grade. Reading 1st grade.?
Readers to be selected. Spelling, 4th
grade?Arnold's Mastery of Words
to page 50; spelling, 3rd grade?
Hunt's Progressive Speller, book I,
section I. Spelling, 2nd grade?
Hunt's Modern Word Book for Primary
grades to page 50.
Athletic Programme.
Boys over 14?100 yard dash; 1
mile relay race; running high jump;
running broad jump; pole vault.
Girls over 14?50 yard dash; 1-4
mile relay race; running broad
jump; potato race; baseball throw.
Boys under 14?75 yard dash;running
high jump; running broad
jump; 1-2 mile relay race; baseball
throw.
Girls under 14?40 yard dash;
running broad jump; 75 yard dash;
1-4 mile relay race; sack race.
The following are the rules, regulations
and suggestions for field day
exercises:
Mental Contests.
Each school will be allowed one
entry for each mental contest. This
means, of course, that there can be
ASKS FOR COOPERATION. j
Food Administrator Appoints Assistant
Administrators.
Mr. A. M. Brabham, food administrator
of Bamberg county, requests
space for the following:
'Having been appointed county'
food administrator for Bamberg
county, I would like to ask the white
and colored people to do all they can
to help me carry on this work. It
is very important that we save all the
food that we can so that our boys
across the water can be fed. Our allies
are asking us for wheat and
meat more than any other foods and
we should be willing, without being
forced to do so, to send them all that
it is possible for us to send.
"Let us make our county a model
for the State in the conservation
and making of food and feed.
"I have received the following telegroms
from Mr. Elliott, the State
administrator:
" 'National administration has
adopted recommendation made at our
meeting Monday concerning farmers
who have their own corn meal; blanks
for millers being printed and mailed
and statement of plan given Sunday
papers. Please note most important
point is to get county papers to publish
the news. Please prepare for
this. Full details mailed later. Telegram
authorizing plan received this
morning.'
" 'Washington has authorized flour
census on basis agreed upon at our
meeting as follows: All persons are
invited to report to county food administrator
amount of flour they
have on hand in excess of thirty days'
supply. It should be made entirely
clear that they should keep this flour
unless some disposition of it is ordered
by food administration and that
it is a census and not a plan of confiscation;
also make clear that when
these written reports are filed the
person accurately making them will
be relieved of charge of hoarding or
other unpatriotic act. This will make
plan popular. Certificate should be
vprv simnle. I suggest the following:
"I have on hand blank pounds of
flour in excess of 30 days supply."
Suggest that this census may result
in great saving of transportation,
since shortage can be thus equalized.
I will be glad to have suggestions in
order that I may pass on to others
to make plan a success.'
"Please make your report to me or
to any of the following gentlemen,
who have been appointed administrators
for their districts:
"Mr. F. V. James, Denmark; Mr.
McP. Eubanks, Govan; Mr. W. B.
Chitty, Olar; Mr. W. Max Walker,
Ehrhardt; Mr. M. J. Black, Bamberg;
Mr. G. E. Kearse, Olar, R. F. D.;
and Mr. Norman Fender, Hunter's
Chapel."
one from each for every contest in
that grade.
All who expect to enter any of
these contests 'will report to Prof.
Allen's office where they will'register
and be directed to the room where
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hour will be allowed for these contests.
Declamation and Recitation Contests.
Each school which expects to enter
these contests should send the
names of the pupils who are to
speak, along with the name of the
school, to Pro. Allen, Bamberg, S. C.,
two days before the contest.
No one who won a medal in either
declamation or recitation contest last
year will be eligible to speak this
year. ^
Athletic Contests.
Each school will be allowed one
entry in each athletic contest. However,
no pupil may enter more than
three athletic contests. No pupil
who won first place m any athletic
contest last year will be allowed to
enter the same contest this year.
All pupils who wish to enter any
athletic contest will bo required to!
register at Prof. Allen's office before
the hour for beginning these
contests.
Trophy Cups.
There are to be two cups awarded j
this year. One will be awarded to:
the rural graded school making the
highest number of points, and one
to the town graded school making
the highest number of points. In
case any rural school should make a
higher number of points than the
highest made by a town school, it
will be awarded both cups. On the
other hand, no town school will be
eligible to compete for the rural J
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sunuui tuy.
In counting points there shall be
first and second only. In the declamation
and recitation contests first
place shall count twenty points and
each second place ten points.
In the mental contests, first place
will count ten points, and second
place five.
In athletic contests, first place
shall count five, and second place
2.5.
We earnestly request all schools
to take part in this programme.
The teachers of Bamberg county
are urged to meet at the graded
school auditorium next Saturday afternoon
at 3 o'clock. The field day
programme and other matters of im
COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS
SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS
IN VARIOUS SECTIONS.
Yews Items Gathered All Around the
County and Elsewhere.
Branchville Briefs.
Branchville, Feb. 16.?Mrs. Garland
Wooding, of Danville, Va., is
spending some time here with Mrs.
E. F. Cabell.
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D. C., is visiting her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Wesley Berry.
Miss Inez Rushton, of Columbia
college, spent the week-end here with
her mother, Mrs. Rushton.
Miss Lucile Weimer has returned
from a visit to friends in Charleston.
P. A. Watson, Jr., of Atlanta, is
here on a visit to his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. P. /A. Watson. *
Mrs. W. A. Bass is visiting relatives
in Florida.
Mrs. Pearce and Miss Blanche
Wood, of Windsor, N. C., visited
Mrs. W. A. Bass during the past
week.
Q. W. Myers, of Atlanta, is visiting
relatives and friends here.
Blackville Brevities. i
Blackville, Feb. 16.?Miss Marie
Farrell is visiting her sister, Mrs.
Milner, in Aiken.
Miss Beartha Rich is visiting Mrs.
Henry Zeigler in Bamberg.
Mrs. James Hammond, of Columbia,
is visiting Maj. and Mrs. E. S.
Hammond.
Mr. and Mrs. A. l Ninestein have
returned from a trip to New York.
Miss Hattie Rena Milhous is spend-'
ing a while with her sister, Miss Vera
Milhous, in Washington, D. C.
The Misses Brooker, of Colum-! bia,
are visiting relatives here.
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Denmark Dots.
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m \ \Denmark,
Feb. 18.?Mr. J. B.
White has sold his farm to Mr. D. N.
Cox and will move this week to the
city of Greenwood, where he has purchased
a residence. He will continue
farming in Greenwood county, having
bought a plantation near Coronoca.
Mr. M. T. Willis has bought th^
J. B. White home and sold his home
to Mr. W. B. Smoak.
Mr. J. B. Guess is enlarging the
store formerly occupied by Mr. J.
H. Walker, converting it into a garage.
When completed it will consist
of two apartments, measuring
77 feet by 60 feet.
On a corner one block from the
Seaboard Air Line freight depot, Mr.
W. H. Faust is erecting a brick livery
stable, 100 feet by 50 feet, which
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Stock company, Mr. B. Newsome manager.
Colston Clippings.
Colston, February 20.?Rev. Walter
Black will fill his regular appointment
at Colston church next Sunday
afternoon at 4 o'clock. Sunday
school scholars will please be present
at 3 o'clock,
j Miss Aileen Beard spent Saturday
night and Sunday with Miss Octavie
McMillan. !
Mr^ and Mrs. J. F. Clayton visited
relatives at Fairfax last Sunday. \
Miss Mamie McMillan, of Bamberg,
spent last week-end with Miss Alberta
Kearse.
Messrs. G. C. and Talbert Padgett,
of Bamberg, spent last Sunday with ,
their parents in this section.
Mr. Frank Kirkland, Jr., spent Saturday
night with his sister, Mrs. J.
A. Jennings.
Mr. Johnnie Clayton was the Saturday
night and Sunday visitor of Mr.
Roy McMillan.
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Beard and family
and Miss Pearle Hutson spent Sunrts?v
with Mr. and Mrs. Laurie Cope
land, of the Oak Grove section.
A large crowd of young people
from this and other sections enjoyed
i a Velentine party at he home of Miss
Laura McMillan.
Misses Nettie and Inez Clayton and
Master Ernest Clayton were the
guests of their brother, Mr. H. H.
Clayton, of the Kearse section, last
Sunday.
! Mrs. H. K. Clayton and children
I are visiting relatives near Denmark.
'Mrs. Hammie Varn and children,
? ? a
Olive and William Uxner, are spenuing
some time with Mr. and Mrs. P.
M. Varn.
portance are to be discussed. It is
urged that as many teachers as possible
be present at this meeting.
COMMITTEE.