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IT * V ; ? "A : % r ' I#' i VOL. XXX. KiyOSTREE, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, MARCH2 191?}. Ndl>2~ ! Attei | - ' 1 r J^^Coffins^iid Casl f * i PRESIDENT WILSON'S RINGING ADDRESS. r.: . I ^ AMERICA SHOULD NEVER SACRIk FICE HONOR AND JUSTICE ? FOR PEACE, HE SAYS. r - , j President Wilson told members and guests at a Gridiron Club dinner Saturday night in Washington that America ought to keep out of the ji European war, "at the sacrifice of everything except this single thing upon which her character and her L history are founded, her sense of humanity and justice." 4 ' n j ? rue address was coquucuum, aiuw the speeches at the dinners of the Giidiron Club, composed of newspaper correspondents, are not reported. It was later made public, however. with the consent of the PresiMfcat and club, because many of tbeae who heard it urged that it should go to the country. Fhe President spoke of the Najfj ticn's affairs with unusual gravity. ^ His hearers, including several hundred members of Congress, Govern1 nwnt officials, business men and corU7.?rp hrnmrht to their feet cheering when he concluded with these words: TRUE VALOR. f "I would be just as much ashamed to be rash as I would to be a coward. Vtior is self-respecting. Valor is circumspect. Valor strikes only | wlec it is right to strike. Valor t withholds itself from all small imWpl'cations and entanglements and [ i waits for the great opportunity when the sword will flash as if it carried the light of heaven upon its blade." I In his address he said: I "T I llfflo fn oov f-nnicrht 1 nave ycjj ubbie iu jwj ; except to express my warm appreI ciation of the invariable courtesy of this club and of the reception you have so generously accorded me. I find that I am seldom tempted to say anything nowadays unless somebody starts something and tonight nobody has started anything. '' "Your talk, Mr Toastmaster, has | been a great deal about the candidacy for the Presidency. It is not a new feeling on my part, but one which I entertain with a greater intensity than formerly, that a man who seeks the Presidency of the United States for anything that it will bring to him is an audacious fool. The responsibilities of the of< fice ought to sober a man even bej fere he approaches it. One of the ; difficulties of the office seldom api. predated, I dare say, is that it is B very difficult to think while so many V people are talking, and particularly J while so many people are talking in a way that obscures counsel and is entirely off the point. NATIONAL AFFAIRS. "The point in national affairs, L gentlemen, never lies along the lines 1 of expediency. It always rests in Lthe field of principle. The United Pn^ates was not founded upon any P principle of expediency, it was found| ed upon a profound principle of huD man liberty and of humanity, and P whenever it bases its policy upon D any other foundations than those it B builds on the sand and not upon solid B rock. It seems to me that the most I ntion, Rerr. frorr. and $ lets. I ' EV enlightening thing a man can do is J suggested by something which the 2 Vice President said tonight. He j complained that he found men who, * when their attention was called to 2 the signs of spring, did not see the > blue heaven, saw not the movement f * * -1 1- nnf nf tY\C% 1 oi iree chjuus, nvn, v?v % great spaces of the quiet continent, c but thought only of some immediate ? and pressing piece of business. It ? seems to me that if you do not think ? of the things that lie beyond and ? away from and disconnected from ? this scene in which we attempt to ? think and conclude you will inevit- ? ably be led astray. I would a great ? deal rather know what they are ' talking about around quiet firesides : all over this country than what they are talking about in the cloak rooms of Congress. I would a great deal rather know what the men on the trains and by the wayside and in the shops and on the farms are thinking about and yearning for than hear 1 any of the vociferous proclamations of policy which it is so easy to hear and so easy to read by picking up any scrap of printed paper. There is only one way to hear these things, ? J ;n nnnafanflo fn trn hflpk I auu tiiai) to wvuomujuj w to the foundations of American ; action. , SIMPLICITY WITH STRENGTH. t "Senator Harding was saying just j now that we ought to try when we c are a hundred million strong to act in the same simplicity of principle I that our forefathers acted in when r we were three million strong. I t heard somebody say that the present population of the Union is one hun- \ dred and three millions. If there are t three millions thinking the same r things that the original three mil- s lions thought, the hundred million i will be saved for an illustrious fu- j ture. They were ready to stake c everything fur an ideal, and that > ideal was not expediency, but \ justice. And the infinite difficulty ! t of public affairs, gentlemen, is to' 1 square the things you do by the not: t simple but complicated standards of, t justice. Justice has nothing to do j i with any temporary standard what- i ever. It is rooted and grounded in ! j the instincts of humanity. j J "America ought to keep out of l ? this war. She ought to keep out of 1 s this war at the sacrifice of every- ' i thing except this single thing upon ! i which her character and history are ! ? founded, her sense of humanity and < justice. If 3he sacrifices that she \ has ceased to be America, she has 1 ceased to entertain and love the tra-! ditions whicn have made us proud 1 to be Americans, and when we go ' j about seeking safety at the expense j of humanity then I for one will be-1 lieve that I have always been mis-1 ( taken in what I have conceived to I ( be the spirit of American history, j i DETERMINING THE FUTURE. i "You never can tell your direc- ( tion except by long measurements. * You cannot establish a line by two * posts; you have got to have three at j least to know whether they are ] straight with anything, and the ( longer your line the more certain your measurement. There is only j one way in which to determine how ( the future of the United States is; f going to be projected, and that is by c Farm< i e m ber, 're t\ i. We handle 0 complete an< J V ? jfstree ru ENTUALLY-V WH A Build your Home, y and contractors. Our pla: Building Material. Our li Sash, Doors, Mould ing, Siding Building Material n No matter how large or h< TV> a r\riane \iTP ack urill hp 1 1 11^ yi 1WQ ff V MUU VV AAA WV 4 | Kingstree Manufactur Real Estate? Country Farms and' If You Want t< If You Want t We can place you in any se you want. Address all cor Gpurdin & Harpei ooaing DacK ana seeing which way he line ran which led up to the >re8ent moment of power and of >pportunity." The American roll of honor, the ^resident said, consists only of the lames of men who have 'squared heir conduct by ideals of duty.' "And I wish," he added, "that vhenever an impulse to settle a hing some short way tempts us we night close the door and take down lome old stories of what American dealists and statesmen did in the Dast and not let any counsel in that loes not sound in the authentic foice of American tradition. Then ve shall be certain what the lines of he future are because we shall cnown we are steemig by the lines ?f the past. We snail know that no :emporary convenience, no temporary expediency, will lead us to be ash or to be cowardly. I would be lust as much ashamed to be rash a3 [ would to be a coward, Valor is lelf-respocting. Valor is circumipect. Valor strikes only when it is ight to strike. Valor withholds tself from all small implications ind entanglements and waits for the mat opportunity when the sword vill flash as if it carried the light of leaven upon its blade." FCHn?.<! F?nn "CEDAR SWAMP" low Does This Suit Our Psteem* ed Correspondent? Thi9 section of Williamsburg coun- j ;y away back in time that ante lates the war between the States, ind possibly the revolutionary pe iod, was settled. The names of iome of the older settlers are: the Mc>eas, McCulloughs, McCotterys, Scotts, Flaglers, Chandlers and : jrayson's. There was a tim?, (we ?et our information from deeds and joundaries of old land papesr), that Vlontgomerys, McElveens and Boyds >wned property in this section. These lands are drained by Cedar J( iwamp, and the neighboring coun-J] ;ry was known then and is to day railed Cedar Swamp section. Some ' ifteen or twenty years ago a post- i )ffice was established here. The : ers: he people to i ? none but tht d our prices e ardware /HY NOT NOW lT we will our Store, your Barns, Stables nt is equipped with new machii !ne consists of: ings, Frames, Column ;, Railings, Mantels, Bi iade to your order, you furnisl ow small the order you send is, no more than you generally pa? ing & Construction Co., Fam^^ands^ rown Lots For Sale! t> Buy, See Us o Sell, See Us ction of the County that respondence to r, Kingstree, S. C. 1 name9, "Cedar Swamp" and "Benson", were sent in, but as a shorter name is preferable to the postoffice Hpnsrtmpnt "Odar Swamo" was rejected and "Benson" accepted as the name of the new office. In the course of time Benson postoffice was discontinued and the patrons are favored now by a rural route instead. Ye scribe has been reporting news from Benson postoffice and, as we have no more postoffice, but have still the old original Cedar Swamp, with Cedar Swamp Graded school, Cedar Swamp church, Cedar Swamp Camp "W 0 W" and Cedar Swamp voting precinct, we are asking our obliging editor to find as a caption other than Benson News, etc. Misses Alma Watson and Nell = Sellers of Sellers, sister and niece of Mrs J Y McGill, were visitors there K last week. Mrs Mayme Rumph and little daughter, Edith, of Charleston are visiting at the Grayson home. : Messrs Vandolph McConnell and Jack McCullough of Bryan were in this neighborhood Saturday and Sunday. Misses Lena Haddock, Myrtle Cooper and Mr Maxie Hemingway spent the week-end here with friends. Messrs Ed Vause and Roger McGill were noted in our midst Sunday. Vf ~ U D D.,~ 11 +r?r/\ K.mto I 1IJIS IX XV XVU9SC1I mill lin VVTW UUJo, Harry and "S T,"spent a short time with relatives last week. The church-going folk are very much pleased at the earnestness with which the new pastor of the Baptist church, Rev A E Riemer, has begun his work, and the entire community welcome him in their midst and will co-operate with him in the furtherance of his sacred duties. WES. Dyestaffs to be Shipped. Washington, February 29:?Great Britain will permit the shipment of two cargoes of dyestuffs, valued at $5,000,000, from Rotterdam to the United States, Ambassador Page, at London, has advised the State de partment.and officials here are hope- 1 ful that Germany will make an ex- I ception to it3 embargo by granting I permission for their exportation. ? Ambassador Page said that the I British foreign office had given him I assurances that the cargoes would I not be interfered with. m l t y your Farm Imple 2 best. 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