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Food Pledge Week
Be&ran Yesterdnv
(By Associated Press).
Washington, Oct. 2H.?Food Pledge
Week begins throughout the United
States today. It will he the culminating
seven days following months of
preparation to enlist America's 22,000,000
housewives in the government's
food conservation campaign.
The opening smash of the big drive
was food conservation sermons Sunday
morning and evening by a majority
of the country's hundred thousand
ministers. This was followed this
morning by the active field work of
the national army of F>00,000 men and
women volunteers which has been organized
and preparing for the drive
for weeks.
The ministers' verbal explanation
of how and why the government wants
its 22,000,000 housewives to conserve
wheat, meat, fats and sugar so we
can make up our European Allies'
food shortage will be emphasized by
the volunteers personally visiting each
housewife.
Special statements endorsing Food
Pledge Week have been issued by
high dignitaries and divines of the
various churches.
Cardinal Gibbons made this plea to
the Catholic women of A morion fr>
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the food conservationers:
'It gives me great pleasure to say
that the patriotic work which is being
done by Mr. lloover and his various
state organizations has my hearty
support and approval and I sincerely
hope that our Catholic women will
everywhere give him their earnest assistance
in this campaign."
Bishop William Fraser McDowell
of the Methodist Episcopal church,
urging his people to sign the Pledge
card and join the campaign, said:
"The Methodist Episcopal Church is
supporting this righteous war in every
possible way. Part of that support
relates to the vital matter of food
conservation. We have heartily en\
dorsed the program for Food Pledge
Week and we urge all our families
I i to unite in the food saving campaign
as presented by the government. It
would help mightily if we had a hundred
per cent of our families signing
the pledge cards. The war for freedom
must be won. We must help at
every point."
Directing himself to the farm women
of the nation, Herbert Quick of
the Federal Farm Board, and editor of
farm papers and magazines said:
"Food Pledge Week is a big and
splendid thing. The attention of the
nation must be centered upon it Do
you know what the Food Pledge Week
'drive" will be? Every home in the
United States will be visited dtirimr
this week by patriotic people who will
tell how food may he saved for ov
soldiers, the soldiers of our Allies, for
the poor people of the warring rations
and for ourselves, (let into the
Food Pledge Week Campaign. Make
your kitchen a food pledge kitchen
and do all you can to make all other
kitchens food pledge kitchens.
"You will thus help win the war."
The United States Food Administration
tonight expressed its anxiety that
the 500,000 men and women volunteers
who go up and down the land
ringing doorbells this week put the
"simple though vitally important food
conservation plan" clearly before every
housewife, impressing upon each
the real significance of the old song: i
"Every little bit added to what i
you've got, makes just a little bit I
more."
It is the "Uittle Hit," added by each j
of our 22,000,000 housewives, which }
is going to make up the food shortage 1
and avert famine and disaster among 1
our European Allies, the Administra- \
v.wn UUl. i
President Wilson has evinced his \
Food Pledge Week's success.
"If we are to supply our Allies p
with the necessary food," said the p
President in a letter to the Food f
Administrator, anent Food Pledge p
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Union County Farm Li
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Week, "and are to reduce our own
prices of foodstuffs during the coming
winter, it can only be accomplished
by the utmost self-denial and
service on the part of all our people
through the elimination of waste and
by rigid economy in the use of food.
Recent cables to the American government
from the government, of
France have stressed the imminent
food shortage in that counutry and
begged that no effort be spared to get
the needed supplies to keep hunger
from descending upon the the people
of France.
Thousands of school children will
follow up the work of the 500.000
volunteers. These children have been
organized and working on preliminary
Food Pledge Week campaign work
throughout the country for weeks. The
same is true of the churches.
Besides the churches, societies,
lodges and other local social and civic
organizations are working with the
volunteers. Many hotel and restaurant
men have enlisted their establishments
in the campaign and will no
their bit to get the housewives inlcreated.
Judging by preliminary estimates
of enrollments in the various states,
based on reports from the volunteer
I imifp * 11? ----- -
mcniavivcs, nit- vast mapjoritv
of the country's 22,000,000 housewives
will be actively enrolled in the campeiprn
when it ends a week from today
pnijrn when it ends next Sunday.
Greek Persecution i
Charged to Teutons. 1
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(By Associated Press) 1
Athens, Greece, Sept. M0.?Cor- 1
rspondence)?Greek authorities have (
received information which convinces j
them that not alone the Turk but j
his -German advisors were re-ponsible
for the deportations of Greeks
from Turkish dominions, as a consequence
of which 700,000 have suffered
persecution or death. y
It is asserted that the Greek le- ^
nation at Constantinople protested
to the then Kinjr Constantine of v
Greece from the bepinninp of the de g
portations but received no assistance ^
or encouragement from him. The le- ^
tration then lodged a protest with ^
Talaat Bey, the Turkish Grand Viz- y
ier. r
His reply, as shown by official pa- ^
pers was that "these measures are taken
by advice of our German advisors."
The Greek legation then took ^
up the subject with the German -j
j General, I.iman von Sanders, who is
declared to have replied that the
presence of the Greek communities
[within the Ottoman Empire was dan
o
| gerous to military operations and
that he was "only executing the or- i
dors of the Clerman General Staff." k
An account of the persecution of .
the Greeks which has been given to
The Associated Press states:
"The method of -depopulation
adopted has been very similar to the tl
method adopted with regard to the n
Armenian races. During the night, T
armed irregular troops of the Turkish i.<
army would form a cordon around the Gl
doomed district. The inhabitants nj
would be awakened by means of bells aJ
and ordered to evacuate the village in t.c
ten minutes, for military reasons. No
extension of time was allowed, one ob- T
ject being that the victims should
not be able to take anything with
them, either food or goods. In the
event of delay ,the troops drove the li\
terrified people at the point of the to
bayonet. It
"The moment that the people had ne
{one, hordes of bandits and irregular mi
ioldiery poured into the empty vil- bo
ages and looted and burned the th<
louses in a frenzy of destruction, it
vhile the inhabitants, old men, women hit
tnd children as well as the able bodied, en
vere on the march.
"Soon after the march began, the us,
irocess of extermination began to be tal
>ut into effect. Men were separated a
rom their women and children, and un<
?anies were made up for a trek to|da;
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various places, usually locations in
far-distant parts of Asia Minor. Needess
to ^ay, few of these parties ever
reached their destination, being grad1
111 1 \7 I'illorl r\fF
...uvu wit u; c.\|junuie or starvation.
Thousands died in barren
lesert lands. Without food or drink,
ind poorly clad, a speedy death at
.he hands of the soldiers would have
)een welcomed by many. The solliers,
however, seldom attempted direct
killings at this stage, except of
efugees who attempted escape, the
ioldiery generally being content to let
lunger and thirst and exposure do the
vork of extermination for them.
"The lot of the women and children
vas the usual one, which has beeig.decribed
many times in accounts of
he Armenian deportations. Being1 deenseless,
they fell a prey to the first
asserby. Any Turk along the way
rho fancied a child or a young wonan,
merely took possession, and
housands of young Greeks are now
(itemed in Mussulman villages, for
ihly "converted" to Islam and forced
o live as servants or concubines of tho
'urkish peasantry.
"In the neighborhood of Constantiople,
many of the deportees managed
n return and appeared in the streets
f the capital, starving, begging and
leeping in the back streets and al?ys.
To abate this scandal, the Turish
government had the police col>ct
hundreds of these wretched perms
and concentrated them at Pacaldi,
here their fate is not yet known.
It is declared that, as a result of
lese deportations, all Greek commuities
have been eliminated in the
hracian regions of Demotica, Sufli,
itranja, and Eregla, from the coast
the sea of Marmora, from the pensula
of Artaki, from all villages
ong the Rosphorus and from the
>ast of the Black Sea.
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he New Industrial Gospel :
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(From Textile Manufacturer) 1
The humane rule to "live and let f
e," has never before meant so much '
the American mind as it does today. 1
is striking in upon us clothed in a (
w and deeper and more dignified r
jailing. It is what the common larer
is uttering to the employer in t
ese strange and distressing times, c
is what the employer is saying to h
i government. It is what the gov- ii
anient is saying to both. p
In the new crusade that is before v
( it was# inevitable that it woul l o
;e some time to bring about such t<
marked translation was forced b
on America. It was only yester- it
y, it seemed, when we were running V
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rhole lot cheaper. If you <
3 to 5 years as the world s
rms are easy Do the sensl
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2 ply, guaranteed 10 years, $
3. 2 ply, $1.50 per square. 1
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lived ? Come t<
Theatre, Tu<
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Hillior
'he Biggest Novelty And
40 People! Carload of S
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1 Production!
j THE IMPERIAL
ORDINARY Sometlilng Ne
ines! Cultivatin
ful and Expensive Costum
cess in Years!
1.00 and $1.50. Si
alonjr in the quiet lanes of peace,
where industry was unthrottled, when
labor was steady and employment
was easy of access; when prices were
hiprh, hut not intolerably high, when
tho whnlo filwo
vi ami ictwiu- ui uur social
and industrial life was impeturbed
save by occasional outbreaks
and infrequent notes of discord.
Suddenly we woke up to find ourselves
in the midst of the greatest
of all of history's wars. We had to
begin at once the task of readjustment,
of fitting ourselves in with the
new exigencies, of meeting the
strange duties which war inflicted.
The government looked to its vast and
powerful industrial captains and
these industrial captains looked on
down out upon the tremendous multitude
of laborers. The government said
to the captains of industry: "I must
have your plant; I want your machinery
to run at my command and
to make commodities for my use.
I will see to it that you get the profit
but private enterprise and individual
business must give way before the
pressure of the government's demands."
With what instant readiness
the industrial chieftains replied is io
abundant evidence. The government
must live, therefore, it must as those
it has protected and for whose wellbeing
it has been fostered to utilize
their agencies and apply their plants
for the promulgation of its policies
Similarly, it has come on down until
the same insistent voice has been
heard by the multitude. The masses
of men everywhere are responsive to
needs of the government, are ready
to contribute what they can that the
government might live, but their importunity
is as unceasing as that of
the manufacturer. They must also
live. They have needs that must be
met. They have mouths that must be
fed. They have tasks that must be
performed. They have economic destinies
thatmust be worked out. Their
?reat individual task of living has not
>een taken from their shoulders. They
:an still call out frc .j under the burlens
society is hearing that they, too
nust live.
And so, during the crude processes
hrough which we are passing, the
risis, forced upon us by war as could <
lave been forced upon us by no other
maginable contingency, is going to i
lermeate us with new industrial ideals i
/hen it is all over ai.d wc revert to ;
ur wonted ways of peace and unin- 1
errupted thrift. "Shall we make (
usiness social or shall we make pol- s
,ics industrial," asks an economist? j
/e are already engaged in doing both. 1
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ever expect to own a farm,
lands. We have sold sevei
ble thing?See US before buy,
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2.40 per sq. 3 ply, guarantee
3 ply. SI.75 per square.
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jsday Evenin
neediest of all Mus
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Dance Show of The Seas
icenery and Electrical Effects!
A Musical Corned
QUARTETTE! "T~ ~G/
GARDEN NOVELTY Till? IV V I
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es Ever Carried With a Koi
Magnificent $
eats on Sale at Peo
, The pendulum is swinging in both dii
rections at this moment. We are all,
more or less, feeling the new thrill
t of social sympathy, we are finding
t a new atmosphere in which the spirit
of co-operation can exist, every mar
is striking hands with the greatest
partner in enterprise he has ever had
in his life, the United Stntr>?
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ment. His social cravings and social
aspirations will reach up into the circle
of politics underlying governmental
authority and the government will
reach down to the social planes upon
which its subjects are groping. Socialism
and industrialism, not in the
technical and diluted senses in which
those words have come to mean, but
in their broader interpretation, will
have a new baptism thrust upon them.
The business of the government to
live will be correlated in a new sense
with the business of the individual
to be allowed to live along with it.
Local Drug* Store
Begins Manufacturing
The Peoples Drug Store, of this (
city, having been so markedly successful
the past two seasons with the
"K-W Brand Cough Syrup" and K-VV
Brand Grippe Capsules" (Lawson
Formula) have decided to put on the 1
market a full line of household remedies
and already have quite a number
manufactured and bottled. Each
article will be labeled with the "K-W
Brand", which the manufacturers intend
to make a mark of highest pur- ity
and their absolute guarantee.? 1
Adv.
"The Million Dollar Doll."
"The Million Dollar Doll," which j
will be the offering at the Edisonia
theatre on Tuesday evening, Oct. 30,
has two of the greatest comedy characters
on the stage today, Melvin
Meekman, a hen-pecked husband, and j
Jasper Jackson, a colored servant, are
left at home to look after the household
when the other depart for the
San Francisco Exposition. However,
Melvin and Jasper are not to be out
done, so they disguise themselves and c
ship on the same boat, Melvin as a
common sailor and Jasper as a potato
peeler. One can hardly imagine how ?
much trouble these fellows can get _
into; on the voyage and after they |
arrive at the exposition they have a
lard time getting even one meal a
Jay and are about to give up in despair,
when Melvin draws the grand
jrize in the Argentine Lottery ami
lecomes immensely rich.?Adv. *-?
^ JTJL JLLj J-2
it will pay you to buy it N<
ral Farms in the past few da
ing. If we can't do you any good,
n," Union,
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id 15 years, $2.75 per sq.
ion, S. C.
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ig, Oct 30
sical Comedies
rDoll
on
ly That Is Different!
IY GIRLS GALORE
JMINATED RUNWAY
h arid Beauty!
id Production,
itage Settings!
pies Drug Store
"Go-to-Sunday-School" Day
The Sunday school of the Church
of the Nativity will have special exercises
on Nov. 1th. This is "Go-toSundav-SrhnrJ
?
? ?. , ou recommended
by both secular and church authorities
and it is earnestly desired that
every communicant of the church be
present.
A cordial welcome will also be extended
to all visitors and persons
whose obligations do not call them
elsewhere.
SPECIAL ADVERTISEMENTS |
DO YOU WANT all kinds of Fruits
and Vegetables? Do you want all
kinds of Home-Made Candies?
Come and see us. You will find
what you want and will be treated
conrteously. Phone No. 37, A. Kcrhulas,
Candy Kitchen.
42-8t-4-d-w.
[JET $5.00 WORTH OF FUN from
the Divorce Case Wednesday evening
by paying 10 and 25c to see the
trial.
DON'T FAIL to see the great Divorce
Case Wednesday evening, Oct. 31.
PHE FEMALE CHARACTERS will
be visions of liveliness in the Divorce
Trial Wednesday evening.
WILL BE IN UNION Saturday
with three, extra fine fresh milch
cows. Come and see me if you want
a good cow. Can be seen at Bailey's
Stable. Ed Jeter. 8-3-pd
X)ST?At Red Cross headquarters,
a small pair of shears. Finder will
please communicate with Mrs. J.
W. Mixson.
<OST?One frold lavelier between <>7
South Mountain street and the
First Presbyterian church Sunday
morninpr, Oct. 2S. Finder please
notify E. L. Purdy. 11-1
HEAP MONEY TO LOAN for lony
periods of time, on city and farm
property. See Barron & Barron.
COOPER FURNITURE EXCHANGE
27 Main St. UNION, S. C.
Buy, Sell and Exchange Everything
in Furniture
Very l.ow Prices on Rebuilt Furniture
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DW. Union County
ys, but have several
we will do you no harm
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