University of South Carolina Libraries
THE UNION TIMES! PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY THE UNION TIMES COMPANY TIMES BUILDING MAIN STREET BELL PHONE NO. I LEWIS M. RICE Editor Re*i sterrd at the Postoffice in Union, S. C., as second class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year $1.50 Six Mor ths .75 Three Months 40 ADVER 1TSEMENTS One square, first insertion $1.00 Every s ilisoqurnt insertion hU Obituary notices. Church and Lodge notices, and notices of public meetings, entertainments and Cards of Thanks will br charged for at the rate of or" cent a word, cash accompany ir ; the order. Count the words rod you wi',1 krow what the cost will be. MEMBER OP ASSOC1ATF.D PRESS The Assoc iated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otlx rwise cr -dited in this paper and alsc the local news published heicin. TUESDAY, JULY 4, 1918. Our American soldiers are proving themselves equal to the task of battling with the Huns. The world of workers may well look w'ith contempt upon the few idlers that remain. What excuse can a man give now for being a loafer? It is reported that the Gorman navy is getting ready to come out and fight. There could be no more desirable thing than to have them come out and fight. We believe it will he the most entertaining light the German navv has ever participated in. Our cat says there are some people who think the whole world would go to smash if they failed to f-et up in the morning, hut the old fellow further arises and says that these same people could die, as they will some day, and the sun will rise just the same and even the whistles will blow and the wheels turn. We feel sure the Union Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture will perform a real service to the town and county if it can induce some first-class man to come here and open a laundry. The organization has the question under advisement and we hope results will be obtained. If the laundry proposition makes as good success as has the bakery, which, by the way, was brought here through the efforts of the organization, it will prove a real success. One of the principles laid down by I the Great Teacher is: "lie that is not for me is against me." This proves that neutrality is really antagonism. In the present day, an American citizen "-ho is not for his country is an enemy of his country. It is not enough for one to refrain from saying and doing that which is disloyal. To be neutral is to come perilously near to being a traitor. It requires not only passive submission to the will of the government, but active obedience. It is no time for anything save complete loyalty. A careful consideration of conditions leads to the conclusion that our people cheerfully comply with the various rulings of the Food Administration, and the cooperation vv*ith the government is well-nigh universal. This disposes the theory that a democracy cannot do things; that is, cannot do them in a satisfactory way. The fact is, the most effective cooperation is that which comes willingly, not grudgingly, as is being daily proven by the people of this country. We do not believe, if the search were made today, there would he found a dozen families in Union County that have on hand more than the regulation amount of sugar or flour. Our people are not only willing to comply, but they are anxious so to do, and this is one of the best indications that can be found of our sincerity of purpose. There may be here and there some miserably selfish soul that is hoarding, but, if so, he will keep very quiet about it,' for were it to become known, he would be scorned by his neighbors, and justly so. NOTICE Rev. C. B. Prince, pastor of the West Springs Baptist church will preach a special sermon on Saturday night to men only. The services will begin at 9:30 o'clock. V ..,-r ' / BOLSEIIVIKI ADOPT CUBIST ] STYLE 'OF DECORATION London, May 17.?(Correspondence . of The Associated Press).?The Bolsheviki have adopted the cubist style of decoration for Russian cities in celebrating the revolutionary feast days. The whole city of Petrograd was decorated in this bizarre fashion for the celebration of May Day. Thousands of cubist posters draped with revolutionary red bunting ornamented the walls of palaces and government buildings. Describing the scene the Petrograd correspondent of the Morning Post writes: "Petrograd for May Day w'as turned into a huge village fair. The ambitious plans for hiding under red draperies and hideous cubist canvasses all the visible symbols of those things Hint made the greatness of once great Russia were curtailed by shortage of ,-o ! material, by inability to compel a suflicieney of skilled labor, or by the desire of everybody concerned to think first of personal opportunities ai d only secondarily of public objects. "At any rate, the great palaces and monuments, the works of art of many generations, were neither hiddmi nor disguised. hut merely disfigured. T noted principally the disfigurement of ho Winter Palace facade. Half a dozen billboards erected ahout the Palace Square horo cubist and futurist anjru!ar daubs on a gigantic scale, each with a legend explaining what otherwise was certainly incomprehensible. "The Treat column of the Palace Square had evidently defied the attacks, and only its pediment was partially hidden by billboards covered with crude colors, having neither form nor substance. "The procession did itself credit in several particulars. All the fighting forces on this occasion appeared with full equipnujnt and arms. Bands of workmen were interspersed between the fighting arms. "Bands, of course, played freely, hut the Marseillaise, which is the official anthem of modern Russia pending the invention of somethin.tr Russian, was little heard. Military honors are paid to the Marseillaise, and civilians oilcover when it is played. "May Day is. according to beliefs now' widely promulgated by Lenine the day of the birth *of the Russian revolution. All things that happened before were merely anticipatory throes or abortive alarms, which the country is well rid of, and which are best forgotten." SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION Editor of Union Times:? Please announce in your paper of this week that the County Sunday school convention (Interdenominational) will convene at New Hope, near Jonesville, August 16 and 17. The program will be arranged later. Very truly,, J. W. Scott, Pres. July 2, 1918. 01R CRUSADERS I For the living God in heaven they are fighting overseas, Py the blood of Christ on Calvary is blest the high crusade And the Ivast of Armageddon shall : upon his bended knees. For a thousand years of horror know the hell that he has made. And as Perseus slew the dragon as it clasped the trembling form Of the lovely Andromeda, so our splendid boys advance i To crush the million-headed beast in furious battle storm And blast its slime and venom from the hills and values of France. The crowned and rampant vulture, the escutcheon of the Hun, Types the Ilohenzollern devil, and < his blasphemy of God; Rut the eagle of America unblinking < eyes the sun, \ And our glorious army treads the path the old crusaders trod. i Not in Holy Writ nor history nor legends of romance, Neither Tancred nor de Buoillion, neither Richard Lionheart, More truly fought for God and Christ than now in ravished France And pillaged Flanders bear our boys the true crusader's part, i For the imperial Ilohenzollern is the < Moloch of the Huns, , Foul murderers of children they and ravishers of maids, And the blackened soul of Prussia breathes damnation from its < gums, And the iron cross of Satan for the \ Cross of Jesus trades. i Put the beast of Armageddon shall be i beaten to his knees; By the pride and crown of Prussia shall the awful price be paid; For the living God in heaven they are fighting overseas, And the blood of Christ on Calvary c hath blest the high crusade. i Charles H. Tiffany. PRESIDENT SPEA] MO (Continue! friends with whom we have the ha and purpose with which we act. "This, then, is our conceptio engaged. The plot is written ph supreme tragedy. On the one hai the peoples actually engaged, but but can not act; peoples of many people of stricken Russia still, ar mont unorganized and helpless, stand an isolated, friendless groi purpose but only selfish ambition: themselves, and whose peoples ai fear their people and yet are f< every choice for them and disposi as well as of the lives and forti pow'er?-governments clothed witl authority of an age that is alto past and the present are in deadl being done to death between then "There can he but one issue, be no compromise. No half-way decision is conceivable. These ar of the world are fighting and whi l?e peace: "1. The destruction of ever; rately, secretly, and of its single if it can not he presently destroye tence. "II. The setlement of ever; eignty, of economic arrangemen basis of the free acceptance of concerned, and not upon the bas: any other nation or people whicl sake of its own exterior inuence "MI. The consent of all nati each other by the same principle: law of civilized society that go1 states in their relations with one covenants may be sacredly observ no selfish injuries wrought with upon the handsome foundation of "IV. The establishment of it certain that the combined pow< of right and serve to make peace der .ite tribunal of opinion to v international readjustment that peoples directly concerned shall "These great objects can be p is the reign of law, based upon by the organized opinion of manl "These great ends can not be cue and accommodate what state: ances of power and of national i the determination of what the thi longing hope for justice and for "I can fancy that the air of ciples with a peculiar kindness, nation against which they were revolt against its rightful author been a step in the liberation of it United States; and I stand here confident hope?of the spread o stage of the world itself. The b they knew little of?forces, whi earth again; for they have at the .-ire deathless and of the very sti KELTON NEWS Kelton, July 3.?The crops are 1 ing fine and all were pleased to the beautiful rain which fell Sui afternoon. It was badly needed. Mrs. Harriet Gallman of this tion is on the sick list Messrs. Tillman James and lie Home of Jonesville entered the vi'cn of Uncle Sam on June ! These young men will be gr< ... i i? .I?: f_: i_ iiuaat-u uy 1111*11 nutiiy UICIIUS. Mr. J. G. Comer of Reidsville w visitor at. the home of Mr. T. J. son last Sunday afternoon. Lilian, the 7-year-old dauphte Mr. Wallace Home is very sick. Mr. Ronnie Inman of Kelton visiting at the home of Mr. T. J. son Saturday and Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. J .C .Gatilt of Ke R. F. 1). 1, were the puests of 1 rlauphter, Mrs. Wallace Harris Sunday. Brown Ey< JONESVIIXE, R. F. I). 1. Jonesville, R. F. D. 1., July 1.?1 we have had a very pood rain, w was badlv needed, which all the f; ers in this section was glad to soMr. Berry Parks spent last w end with his father and other : tives in Spartanburg. Mrs. T). J. James and daughter, telle, spent the day last Friday Mrs. Nannie Parks. Mr. Rem Wyatt and son, Join w'ere in Jonesville Saturday on 1 ness. Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Parks vi their sister, Mrs. Sallie Palmer, Monday. Mr. Berry Parks spent Monda.v ternoon with Mr. Johnnie Wyatt. Mr. Mack Gault and Dr. Thrn r. si1. A ~ I 4-1* Ayf .. 7 uue uay ounu.iy Willi mi. i James. Miss Anna Parks visited her e Mrs. Sallie Palmer, Monday. The health of this communit very pood at present. Mrs .P. J. James and daughter, telle, were visitors in Jonesville tirday afternoon. Miss Ruth Gallman was also a itor in Jonesville Saturday afterr Brown Ey< KELTON DOTS Kelton, July 2.?Ed Adair and laughters of Spartanburg are \ ng relatives here. Miss Mabel Kelly has been visi 4 KS AT >UNT VERNON TODAY ) FROM PAGE ONE) ippiness to bo associated in action, the faith m of the great struggle in which we are rin upon every scene and every act of the id stand the peoples of the world?not only many other also who suffer under mastery races and in every part of the world?the nong the rest, though they are for the .noOpposed to them, masters of many armies, jp of governments who speak no common i of their own by which none can profit but re fuel in their hands; governments *"hi h or the time their sovereign lords, making ing <>f their lives and fortune a.; .1 < y "."'I lines of every people who fall under their i the strange trappings and the primitive getlier alien and ho^iile to our c.v;?. The y grapple and he peoples ef the v/or'd are ii. The settleni it must be final. There can derision wouM be tolerable. No half-way e the ends foi whicl the a-rociated p'Jinie* ich must be ccr*edeu them before there can y arbitrary pr er anywhere that can s^oichoiee distur the neace of the world; or, id, at the least Its reduction to virtual inrpoy question, whether of fcrrito-y, of sovert, or of poli:i:al relationship. Unon the that settlement by ..he peop'e immediately is of the mat vial interest or advantage of 1 may desire a different settlement for the or mastery. ons to be govts ned in their conduct towards s of honour and of le-nct for the common cern the individual citizens of ail modern i another; to the end that all promises and 'ed, no private nlots or conspiracies hatched, i impunity, and a mutual trust established f a mutual respect for Tight, an organization of peace which shall male er of free nations will check every invasion ! and justice the more secure by affording a /hich all must submit and by which every can not be amicably agreed upon by the be sanctioned. ut into a single sentence. What we have seen the consent of the governed and sustained kind. achieved by debating and seeking to reconsmen may wish, with their projects for balopportunity. They can be realised oniv by nking peoples of the world desire, with their social freedom and ? pportunity. this place carries the accents of such prinHero were started forces which the great primarily directed at first regarded ap r ity but which it has long seen since to have s own people as w*ell as of the people of the now to speak?speaking proudly and with f this revolt, this liberation, to the great lindad, rulers of Prussia have roused forces mi, uiilc iuuscu, tnn ncvci uc uancu tu ir heart an inspiration and a purpose which iff of triumph." Mrs. Willie Edmonds of Spartanburg this past week, look* Bonnie Fowler of Sunny Side com( s00 munity is visiting relatives near here, ndav John M. Little had the misfortune to iose a line muie yesterday. They S(.c_ think blood poison was the cause of its death, this is a great loss to Mr. irnrc Litt le. j.,,,.. Lewis Sanders of Spartanburg 2Sth. sPcnt Sunday at home. ?a11 y Miss Ealine Scales of Spartanburg was at home for the week-end. as a Mrs. J. D. Croft is on the sick list. Via- hope she will soon be well again. Rev. J. D. Croft and Clermont r nf Garner attended the convention at Jonesville Sunday, despite the rain, W;iS they had a good time. yjn_ Hosey Webber and family are moving to Union this week. Mrs. S. J .H. Howell has been sick their aPa'n- We hope she will recover ' soon. >, on Well, Thursday is the "Fourth," now ar? we Roinp to ceieDrate it? Times are too serious now for much frivolity. Let us not forget to pray II for our nation at larpre, and for our 'hich boys "ovor there." Who perhaps will mn_ not have a chance to celebrate the n day. , "Bits of Moss from Mossdale." eekrela JONESVIILE NEWS t'S- Jonesville is sad over the death of with Senator R R Till mnn wrn Vinvp lnaf a great man. nnie, The Wallace mill is to have a big >usi- time today?the Fourth. Mr. and Mrs. Nobles of Charlotte, ^ted N. C., have been on a visit to Mr. and last Mrs. Julian Lipscomb. Afiss Carrie Southard of Columbia ' af- is spending her vacation with her mother, Mrs. .S C. Southard, -her Miss Irene Foster is with her ). J. father, J. B. Foster; she has been in school at Johnston, S. C. iunt, Mrs. Maude Hedgepath of Greenville is here for a few days. y is Mrs. Beulnh Spears Cunningham of Greenville, Mrs. Forrest Spears, Es- Mrs. Eunice Free and Mrs. T. A. Sat- Littlejohn are camping at West Springs for a fortnight, vis- Mrs. Lipford spent sometime , in oon. Spartanburg. Her son Clarence, has ?. kimie tu wutk tor trie K"v^rnment in Charleston. Mrs. Laurence Southard has been visiting relatives here for sometime, two Dr. Berry who recently held a po isit sition with the Jonesville Drug Company is now in Greenwood where he ting was a position with a drug concern. j | Men fee' the duty of consc Ias a day of earnest thought our fight may soon terminal racy for all mankind. Everyone of us, young an deed, every man who hopei Stars and Stripes is helping Let us celebrate this histc win the war. Let us resolve AND THRIFT STAMPS U] Union County has glorifb of men that have gone to 1 glorifv itself by the men an R |j. CO | The House of i pi ?! i i km 4 \>\ /*> I FIQTZCOi?^ jl ja. ^ ? You warn safety, l^e: ij in a tire. get in the that, plus w'tw? siliency,s] ; | |v 'j luxury? Tread anc Non-Skic The Union Har Union, South ( NEW CANDIDATE'S CARD NC We, the friends of E. W. Tucker announce him a candidate for election to the office of Township Commission- I er \for Bogansviiie Township, Union of County, and pledge that he will abide Lir the result of the Democratic primary pa: election. Vote for the man who will Pe* serve you faithfully. Friends. est ?m ' izei You may trust the man who can't look you in the eye if you wish. For that matter, you may tickle a mule's I hind leg if you wish. tioi MMMBMnaninaai ? 1917 STROUSE A BROS inc balto mo*. / icrating this 4ih of July and determination that * e in the of democ- I d old, can help, and, ins f#r the safety of the irical day by helping to to buy WAR SAVINGS NTIL IT HURTS. ed itself by the number the war, and now let it d women at home. HEN Satisfaction & v! to. if !?\ J f:; i . D TIRES ' size--strength, auty and mileage That's what you x ij : Fisk Cord. All most unusual re- jj peed,comfortand T Made in Ribbed jj 1 the famous Fisk l!| dware Co. I Carolina J \ i >TICE TO DEBTORS AND CREDITORS Ml persons indebted to the estate Mr3. Mae E. Linder (Mrs. S. S. ider) are hereby notified to make /ment to the undersigned. All. sons holding claims against said ate are to present same duly itemd and verified to the undersigned. J. A. Sawyer, Executor. , _ < ^ j Cvery fat man has a secret ambin to play heavy tragedy.