THE UNION TIMES o. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY * BY THE UNION TIMES COMPANY a t) TIMES BUILDING, MAIN STREET t< BELL PHONE NO. 1 0 LEWIS M. RICE ..Editor a ?? is Registered at the Postoffice in Union, o S. C. as second class matter. I< SUBSCRIPTION RATES n One Year $1.50 s Six Months .75 Three Months .40 ' \ ADVERTISEMENTS ^ One square, first insertion $1.00 Every subsequent insertion .50 I ? t MEMBtJR OF ASSOCIATED PRESS 1 The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication 1 of all news dispatches credited to it or < not otherwise credited in this paper ( and also the local news published herein. 1 THURSDAY. N'OVKMIiKK 1.".. 117. ' Our cat says: "Hoover is a hum- 1 hup." The fact is, our cat is a 1 "slacker"?never worked a day in his ' life, and accordinp to the rules of 1 the pame, he should neither be allowed 1 to eat. Rut, then, he is only a cat, 1 and one does not expect much of the ' feline quadruped. ' The followinp from an editorial in < the Nepro Review, edited by Rev. A. : A. Sims, is pood advice piven to the i colored people, and, it contains some i suppestions that mipht prove helpful to white people, if they would heed the message: < "The Germans have captured a few ' Americans and the Americans have 1 "Von a few Germans. A few have killed on both sides. This means rfiiu the war is being brought nearer us in reality. Soon we must hear of numbers of Negroes dying in the trenches or being captured. Let us not wait for this to realize that the war is at our door before we do all we can to help our men. They must be fed and clothed while they fight. They are depending on us. We all can help by cultivating the soil, raising more meat and then saving it all with care. Let every home have a splendid garden and raise a nig. Let there be no waste land nor idle hands." We di.ir AH? , uu.^aici, lici^ium, i lanii", niuunia, Mossopotamia?there is no end to the list. And think of all the towns cities and villages, the rivers, mountains and valleys?it is no wonder the small school boy feels the task ahead of him an impossible barrier. And such strange names?who can ever master the spelling and their pronunciation? Its a big task, but we have determined to attempt the fight. Some of the spelling we have allowed to go in, through our ignorance, would make a dog laugh, no doubt. Our cat says he could have beaten it; but we expect to improve and don't you forget that! Ton my soul, I am beginning to believe that this government is going to get in behind its defamers, spies and bad breed of biped who go about preaching against it, abusing our institutions and betraying our secrets to our enemies. One?an editor, was convicted last week in Ureenwood, and another in Charleston yesterday; this man Herring who was too free with his talk here upon our streets was also convicted in Greenwood last week. / and all three have been sentenced to spend some time in the federal prison at Atlanta. After all, there is some spirit in our people; they have been lon^-sufferinp with the alien, the jtskopen enemy, the secret plotter, ho while eating the fruits of the land nd enjoying its privileges, has, like ie craven coward that he was, plotid our ruin. There should be mo\t f them in the Atlanta prison tVann re now there. It is no tirn^ for f00l;hness; this day is a stern day, and ur enemies sho'^gt be made to feel he heavy Uarul of our laws. If wc n is take not, the time has come wher uch will be the case. lleres hopmp tnat every iarmei vho fails to at least try for plenty ol rrain, plenty of forape crops am )lenty of vegetables will have to paj hree dollars a bushel for corn am lfty dollars a ton for prass. Am hat's about what he will have to paj f he does not pet busy and plant sucl rops another season. Better plani some wheat, better plant much oats nuch corn, much peas, much sorpum Better look ahead, for if you don'i you will sadly look back?when an Jther season rolls round. This is n< joke. To save himself, the farmer wil have to save the country. Better raise more hops, more chick ens, fewer cats,.fewer dops. Bette ?ount the cost, before it is too late Better sow turnips, plenty of them Better plant potatoes, many of them hoth Irish and sweet potatoes. Bet ter put in a thunderinp crop of oats you will need all you can prow, am more too, and your neiphbor will nee< wme, too. This is the preatest perioi for the farmer that has ever come t< this earth, but it will benefit him no me whit if he is too shoi t-siphted t< move forward in a bip way. I an jivinp you, not my own ideas, bu the ideas vour government is sendini jut broadcast. Those ideas are beinj promulgated by every agricultural col lege, every farhr paper, every studen of current history and every man o iverage intelligence who is in a po itition to know the real situation. All ar sending out the same warning. If tlr war should stop today, -.high price would still go on; in fact when it doe stop, that's just what will take place To be forewarned is to be forearmed Take this advice or let it alone. Mos of you will let it alone. But that' where you lose. COUNT IT A JOY. Count it a joy that you are privi leged to serve your country, eve though you cannot yourself go to th front. Red Cross; Liberty Bonds; \ M. C. A. War Fund?friend and brotli er, count it a joy, a great privileg that you have an opportunity to servi Big things are at stake in thi war. Momentous issues are at stak in this war. Liberty and slavery ar in a death grip. The Negro shoul take this war to heart; if German should win he would find himsel bound to the chariot of the victor wit chains that would not he broke throuph the centuries to come. Ai tocracy would delight in the prospei of the millions of black slaves to ti its fields and prather its harvests. The Jew should come up to the need of this hour, for autocracy, not demoi racy, is his enemy of old. Autocrac has driven the Jew from pillar 1 post; it has scattered his people t the fourquarters of the heavens! today tramples with the foot of tyrar ny upon the very land that markf the birthplace of his race; ar there is 110 hope for the Jew i the world that-flermany would buili Autocracy will despoil the Jew of h wealth, cheat him out of his birtl riprht, damn him to a life of pilprrir apre and of uncertainty. Autocrac in Russia has trampled upon him; ai tocracy in Germany has despoilc him; autocracy in Turkey has butche ed him. The Jew, of all men, shou say, "down with autocracy! down wi autocracy." The Christian should do his bit f< there is no hope for the teaching Jesus in the despotic domain of t tyrant, autocracy. The religion of J sus is democratic, not autocratic. J sus was the world's first and gre? est democrat. He discovered the i dividual and said to all the worl This is a king, this man, every man a king, or has the privilege to be one The Christians to the world's ei used to fear autocracy as they fe the devil, for autocracy is the devi mightiest 'weapon to destroy the doc- 8 trines rjf religion. Democracy is the 1 in which religion may come to t fruitage. It cannot live under au- ' 1 tocrntic rule. * 1 The poor man should arouse himself, 1 ' for democracy is about all a poor 1 ' man has; it is the one door that opens * ' to him the rich field of the earth, and s ! bids him come in and gather treas- t 1 ure. - * The rich man must needs arouse I himself to the needs of the hour, for i the onlv real value his money brings ^ |* j is the power to act with freedom, 1 to use it as his heart dictates. Au- 3 tocracy says: "Let me have charge of 1 ' lk.1 ? 14L- Jl. 11? 1-1 ! wiiiL wectiuij it reany Deiongs to ine J State. You are but the puppet of I the State." Yes, the rich man had 3 better look well to his own necessi- 1 ties. Autocracy will despoil him, ' chain him, corrupt him, make him lie ' and sneak and hide. Democracy is the only safeguard for wealth. j Our women had better heed the ' * calls of democracy. Autocracy enslaves women; considers them mere 1 chatties. Chooses their husbands and . then puts the whip-handle into the : P hands of those same husbands. Yes, 1 all women, of all nations and of all colors and of all degrees, will be wise ' to heed the call of democracy. De- ] moeracy is the best safeguard woman i will ever have on this mortal sphere. ' Ye men, women, fathers, mothers, sons, daughters, heed the call today. Strip yourself to the bone, turn your 1 [) , feet out to the bare ground, eat corn- ' bread, give, give, then give again, to [) i the calls of democracy. If democracy < 1 dies humanity has lost its last prop and hell has possessed the earth. r i ? COME, NOW, LET'S DO IT. \ romorow, Friday, is the day set for the great drive to raise $ 3,500 in ! f Union county for the army Y. M. C. A. ' work. If every citizen of Union coune ty had heard the speech of Dr. Beav- ; B ers in the court house a few days 1 s hgo, a canvass of the county would be S , i unnecessary, for the money would be contributed before the committees got started. It is to be hoped that everybody will come up to the needs of the hour and get the amount aimed at in the one day canvass. It is a , most worthy course, fellow citizens, j and it should lie close upon your heart, i- Oakland community, Tuesday evenn ing, raised $32.50 for this fund at a i mass meeting and immediately started a committtee to canvass the whole i- community. What this progressive d country's institutions. Don't imagine r- that if you fail someone else will conId tribute the money, anyway. Even if th this were so, but it is not, you would he the loser if you fail to give. And or don't pull out your nickles and dimes, of let it be dollars and five and tens? he more if you can afford it. If we lose e- this war your money would be worth e- no more to you than a handful of it- oak leaves; nor would your homes and n- your land and your merchandise be dr worth anything. You may not have is ^realized it, but your country is in a death struggle?at least, all that you nd prize as being of value, is at stake, ar Your chatties are not the only thing l'a at stake. Your liberty, your family ind even your life is at stake. You nay not know it, but it is so, nonehe-less. Better prize yourself loose rom some of your "long-green", for if ve lose, you lose all that you prize. 11 put it even stronger: If you will lot do anything in this crisis, if you efuse to help, if you flatter yourtelf that you are under no obligaion to give you are* criminal. Such gnorance is a crime. "Yes, but I lave had so many calls, and the calls cecp on coming." That's so, and they vill continue to come, don't forget ;hat; and you will continue to give, res, you will grow in the spirit of iberality, for the light will come to rou more and more, and you will be ?lad, glad, glad in your heart that rou measured up to the measure of a nan. Let's roll up the $3,500_ and do it so quickly that it will look like magic Editorial Clippings | The Union Times urges, "Ruy your wife adress." Don't do it; instead of hat. give your wife the money to huy t. A man knows as little about buying a dress as he does about holding a jaby.?Newberry Obeserver. The United States does not despair if Italy, it does not even despair of Russia, but it realizes that the situition in both of those countries could ae hotter and that it may become worse.?Bristol Herald-Courier. Three newspaper correspondents aave left Russia because they found the country unfit for any human being to live in. When a reporter balks, facts must be indescribable.?The State. A Spartanburg lady who has been visiting her son in the training camp at Fort Oglethorpe, says that he is working hard and getting plain grub, while the German prisoners at Hot Springs, N. C., whom she saw as she passed through that place, look wellfed, content and seem to have all the comforts of life. They are playing golf and tennis and enjoying life. Wonder if that can be said of the 13 American soldiers captured by the Germans ?Greenville News. The grandest opportunity now ex ists in union county lor our men to buy land that has come to the race sitae freedom . Every colored man vrho ever expects to buy a nice little farm had better do so now. The land is selling most reasonable and it is the chance of a life time. The man who buys a little farm now and cultivates it properly will have a little fortune in the near future. A great many of our people have money now and lots of it and whatever you do, buy a home, and one that will help you make a living. Don't invest lots of money in town lots that will make you nothing, liuy a farm and prepare to live.?Negro Review. It is time for the government to quit Handling the dark and stealthy destrftyers of our national war supplies by lires?these fires that suddenly break out in half a dozen place|? as if they were but offenders against the civil law relative to incend?rism. Sentences of a few years imprisonment do not faze the enemy orgioization that is plainly still operating within our country. Let the men caught setting fire to food supplies be shot, precisely as spies or any other sneaking enemies of our country masked . as friends. Destroy them and rest of the gang will show 4 more wholesome respect for the government. Better tha a hundred of these infamous enefties within our gates j should die tftm a single honest solflier at the Iront should perish for lack of the tings destroyed by these lires, which aft occurring with alarming frequency! I,et guards be doubled and trebled i^necessary, every sus ipicious cnaracor do arrested till he can clea.* himllf and for those conivicted of settlir the torch?let the penalty be des? and that promptly, i -Spartanhurg^erald. li>tice. ? S Union Countl Colored Teachers' ^ Association willlold a special meet- ? ing Saturday, A\ 17, at noon. A special prograrrfcias been prepared ^ and other impor^it business will he 8 attended to. II conduct a general Undertaking bus- ' > 8S, retailing coffins, caskets, etc. H. K. Rates, j Jno. W. Beaty, Wade Hampton, 3-2 Corporators. MS CHEAP! lion on Public Road, in good :hools and churches, 2-horse ng, barn and other out-build es branch bottoms, fine pas' timber. Known as "The b, $25.00 per acre. Cross Keys, on good road, od 2-story, 7-room dwelling, i want a nice farm in a good quick. Known as "The Joel ).00. h of Union on public road. ; house, barns and out-buildirse farm open, pasture with the "Byrd Vaughan Place." lesville, known as "The Nordwelling, 2 real good tenant 1 all necessary out-buildings, fine bottom lands, good pas,nd. Price $32.50 per acre. Tiitmire, on good road, daily i corking good 6-room dwellin elegant barn, crib, cotton rigs, a good 4-room tenant actically new except tenant 5 or 40 acres fine creek botm highwater, an abundance )0 feet of good saw timber, ce $30.00 per acre, ion, good public road, 1 good of timber, 5 or 6 acres very ? "The It. F. Harris Place" Place" on the West. Price nion on public road, 3 tenant se farm in cultivation; 100 (, fenced and cross fenced? Jonesville on Bishop Road, fine branch bottoms, 1 small e little farm. Price $30.00 ; ? ion, 1-horse farm open, good good well and out-buildings, j>1250.00. dark red land 5 miles West ings road, daily mail, near ?Den. balance in timber unit reek bottoms, 6 good tenant all necessary out-buildings. wnship, with good 4-room t house, barn and all necesbottom lands ,25 acres pine Price $13.50 per acre, house 3*4 miles from .Tones3rr Place" at a bargain for ton with good tenant houje rank Hames Place." Pr'ce ile from Jonesville on West 1 to suit purchaser and sell ' terms. il list. We have, or can get, : you ever expect to buy a *y," for people are beginning 1 County Dirt. Y & BRO. J, s. c. ???~______ nivlcl IV viii ili . ikivc Tv a\y) Thick, Glossy Hair Free From Dandruff Save Your Hair! Double Its Beauty In *a few Momenta?Try This! If you care for heavy hair, that glistens with beauty and *is radiant with life; has an incomparable softness and is fluffy and lustrous, try Danderine. . 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