? Hfeky > v ~ tr nr i "SAFETY A Play of Mu< Will be Gi LITTLE MT. I LITTLE MOl Saturday Niff! J " o At 8:30 Ax |g . If you want two hoi to "Safety First" an( appointed. Remer date. Saturday Nig A Jmiecinn r&uniicci\/Aji FI ] MUI ,r. i . ? f. . ' i j We have a lot of 1 I ?*_L i 11 J OUT SldDlC$, an : of work i ?all ] We have the Webb< Buggies to suit you ii So come and ge< \have them. Caughm; 1311-1315 Assembly J COURTMARTIAL OF OFFICER AT CAMP JACKSON IS ASKED y Washington, March 8.?Following the sensational charges lodged at the war department by Congressman Sam R. Sells, of Tennessee, that the body of Private Carben A. Keick, 316th field artillery, was sent home 'early in January from Camp Jackson Columbia, where the soldier died, with the body nude, partially washed and the skull piece not adjusted after an autopsy, the inspector general of the army, H. Chamberlain has recommended that First Lieut. Alfred V. Solomon be court martialed, that Maj. T. J. Leary, M. C., now on a leave, be not permitted to reassume command of the base hospital, and that Lieut. Col. W. H. Gibson, now di -vision quartermaster of the 81st division, be informed of his error and fault in the premises. Shouns, near Tazewell, and when Jiis body came from the South Carolina camp with the casket marked ""do not open" the family became auspicious and opened the casket and found the body nude, the head in bad condition and the body showins: every appearance of an autopsy. Congressman Sells filed affidvit from the boy's father and brother and others as to the conditions of the body and asked for an investigation . s with results as stated above. The report says that the casket was probably marked "do not open" by the Columbia undertaking company or an assistant. "Not to have detected the gross neglect character ized by the handling of the body bejfe / % . f? FIRST" :h Amusement -J- i.L^ yen ai uie UGH SCHOOL JNTAIN, S. C. | lit, March 16 O'clock -. . I cnliri fun come II O VI OVAtVt A d you will not be dis-i nber the place and ;ht, March 16 15 and 35 ULAAmLiLLUiULiLAAlUL NE i r c L Cj O fine fresh mules in ready for all kind so *r wagons, the best. I a quality and price. t yours while we in Bros., it. Columbia, S. C. ] fore shipment" the report commends the Tennessee congressman for bring | ing the matter to the attention of | the department, says the family of j the dead soldier is entitled to the ' facts and that Lieut. Col. Gibson erred in making a contract with an undertaker until his competency was learned. No further autopsies will be held on bodies of soldiers until the consent of the commanding general or the surgeon in command of the camp is secured, but autopsies are not pro ! hibited when properly authorized. PATRIOTIC GIFTS VOGUE A Preeewt That Last* Five Ytars and Melpe Win tha War. ? i "Washington, D. C.?Raparta received at the treaaury department show that in all parts of Amriea a new plan far living presents is being firmly established. The "Patriotic Present" is the Idea, and consists of War Savings Stamps te the value of whatever gift would ordinarily have bean given. I Parent*, to encourage thrift as well | as patriotism, have adopted the plan i of arivinr War Ssvinsre SkarnDs and i Thrift Stamps to their children in| stead of the usual presents such as for ! birthdays, surprises, rewards, ete. | Employers who have been accustomed ! to presenting bonuses te employees are | instead giving such bonuses in the j shape of War Savings Stamps. The j "Patriotic Present" now appears to | have become a nationwide eastern. W. S. 8. Subscribe to The Dispatch-News. HOW TO HELP WIN THE WAR.! (Advice to Americans Between, the I Ages of Thirty and Fifty.) j By GEORGE ADE. While the war is on, the active work in support of the boys at the front will be shouldered cheerfully by men and women a little too old for acrobatic service, but not yet frosted at the temples. They will supply part of the money and most of the "pep" needed to supply and encourage a huge army in the field. Tf ic fr?r +.Tiptt? fr> rpaTizp that: we have passed the period of doubting and question answering. We have come to the days when hustling must supplant conversation. It was all right six months ago to spare an hour a day in trying to convince some one with a vacant eye and a dark mind that we were really justified in accepting the insolent challenge thrown at us by Germany. You are to be forgiven if, even four months ago, you spent valuable time trying to convince a sluggish minority that? First?Government bonds are a safe investment. Second?Pro-German propaganda is to be hit in the head. Third?The Allies are , to be trusted. Fourth?The Red Cross is above suspicion and does not obtain either money or knitted goods under false pretenses. Fifth?All taxes which have been j levied are justified by extraordinary and unprecedented conditions. Sixth?This is not a rich man's war; it was not precipitated by any Wall Street influence; it is not concerned over private investment; it is not a grand benefit for munition makers. > Seventh?Fair promises have no value when they are made by a criminal -who finds himself backed into a corner. . Eighth?That men in our training camps and aboard transports and stationed somewhere in France are being safeguarded as American soldiers never before were looked after, as regards wholesome food, proper oaiiiLatiuii, ^icvciaiuii \jx. uiocaoc, ciuu. moral guidance. Why enumerate further Abe Martin met a fellow down in Brown County that never heard of TonyiPastor, and we have a taxpayer in our township who thinks the world is flat, and you can find cabaret performers in New York City who don't believe there is suck a place as Iowa, and clairvoyants still find customers and you can name qeople who will consult a patent medicine "ad" in preference to a doctor, and old Jethro Tilford, over in Shelby Township, carries a dried-up potato to keep off the rheumatism. In every community you will find a contrary-minded sediment of the human race?people who keep themselves somewhat in evidence by noisly denying facts which are self-evident to all^.of their neighbors who hannen to be in the full eniovment of sanity. They are somewhat like frogs, i. e. they make an awfuul noise in propor tion to their number. Now, if you will take the trouble , to check up in your immediate neighI borhood the people who, from the be. ginning of the war, have been full of doubts and questions and false alarms, you will find that they are few in number and of precious little importance, except as atmospheric disturbances. Also, did it ever occur to you: That the man who had bought most liberallv of Government bonds I never questioned the safety of his ('security? That the woman who was knitting the most socks and sweaters never believed the silly stories about the Red Cross being a crooked institu, tion? That the soldier boy about to board a transport and join his comrades of France and Great Britian never was known to doubt the sincerity of the men with whom he was soon to join shoulders? No, indeed! All the wails and misgivings and fish stories are put into circulation by a few picayune outsiders who were just built to be obstructionists and somehow can't help it. They are in a class with the Tories who feasted the aristocratic British ?vffirpr? while Washington's armv starved at Valley Forge. They are a holdover of the Vallandingham clan that reviled Lincoln and gave ; n underhanded copperhead support to the cause of slavery, even after it was doomed. They are the kind of people who oppose public improvements, will not buy tickets for the Chautauqua, criti cise the minister if he smiles in pub lie, and attach the presumption of j guilt to any woman attacked by s*can' dal. They are the small bores, the two-j by-fours, the gnats, the sand flies,! the ticks put on earth to teach good; tne quaniy 01 patience. The time has come to ignore them, j If we can not lock them for safekeeping, at least we can shut them out from our daily program and go head with the important work laid out for us. This is no time to waste precious hours and vocal energy in trying to prove that two and two make four, and water is wet, and the sun sets in the west, and the mad dog of Prussianism must be muzzled. If all the optimists along your street should arise some morning into a world bedecked with