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1 J 1 f Thi \ VOL. 23. NO. 97. SEMI-WEEKLY % B0LSHEY1KI CALLED " S WOEST OF OUTLAWS... ' ( 1 ginpeiinf |L Uncle Sam Calls Council of Na- For s tiors to Check the Out| ?? rages. Clemson M war deparl I ' establish m? I NO EFFECT ON THE WAR Rtudent an f < i ' in englneei ^ii .. AIHps and Noutroluy A'cLnd 4#* rovei dflht , " """" " ""v" *" each. Stut tl.,. Consider RJplls to Impresasto c. may tak I .'? Bolstveyflu the Disapproval of ual throe n f,i- thejtforld. Those who .^ courses in s ^ U will stay it Washington, Sept. 23.?Horrified ]ar? comph .by the bloody reign of terror in litis- somt-agrici 'Bla, the United States has called up- A, T. C. me on all allied and neutral nations to tlon Is call 41 S 'consider what they may do to Impress flutrements ^ upon the Holsheviki the aversion with are vory 8 twhich the civilized world regards paration a 1 their wanton crimes. been enroll J By direction of President Wilson, that accou i f Secretary Uansign dispatched an in- reasons, th b I dentlc instruction to every Ameri- take a few * I I can diplomatic representative in the There ai \ . I foreign capitals. The action aligns S. A. T. C. I \the United States with that of Great students a J ^Britain and France in declaring the vocational I JBolsheviki outlaws and public ene* / mies responsible for the murders. HALF VI H . Xt crime and execesses which have FOR 1 shocked the world. M , Whatever action may be decided (jairm>y >| ' upon by the nations, separately or in loyalty in concert, it is made clea*, will be quite apart from the prosecution of V . the war ngainst Germany. Rock Hi y Instructions Sent Out. q Hickson This is the text of the state depart- ,n the fedf mont's 1 nntrilrt Innn n tho imorlcon . - v ? ?~ rernoon or k diplomats: refused a i f "This government is In receipt of ju?;Ke Cha - . -* information from reliable sources senced to ' ? revealing thnt the peaceable Russian federal pen t citizens c? Moscow, and Petrograd ujckscn m: \ JP and other cities are suffering from an court room 1^4 openly avowed campaign of marked n0w trial, h i| terrorism and are subject to whole- what was d . 1 sale executions. Thousands of per- prepared f< IwM sons have been shot withont even a shorten his y ?n of trial; ill-admlnlstered prls- __ Uflp ons are filled beyond capacity and .-i.-kV'IT'RN] ' f i" every night scores of Russian citizens * ,y f are recklessly put to death; and 0r/ responsible hands are venting their brutal passions in the dally massacre Asks to S Iof untold* Innocents Acts i America Must Speak. "In view of the earre?t do-dro of ? , . .. .. . Clovernoi the people of tho United States to . , . ? . . strenuous t befriend tho Russian people and . , , . .. ,. ... . with Presli lend them all possible assistance in ^ ^ theirjKStmggle to reconstruct their ,( 1' xi .if. . o concluded, nation upon prinieiples of democraii. . .i president d cy and self-government and acting, ,? ? ? .. request for therefore, solely in the interest of the t> . , .. . .. . president t , Russlnn people themselves, this gov- J ^ . ernment feels that it cannot he silent "Tlie Presi or refrain from expressing its horror at tlie state of terrorism. Further- ^ <l ' IV ? , , ? J wisdom am A more, it is believed that in order to , I u,. ? in every u I* lk " check further increase of the indis- ^ ^ t Ij criminate slaughter of Russian citl- | I I zens. all civilized nations should reg- , 1 .... . desire to p Hirt \1 Ister their abhorence of such bar- , A. v. t ? A , relative to V Y barism. eg /' 1 To Make Inquiry. my "You will Inquire, therefore, * ?" rty a" . . seeing you Ir whether the government to which ?.. , 111%. ^ j * aB wil1 suil you are accredited will be deposed to, take some Immediate action which Is entirely devoid from the atmos L phere of belligerency and the con- ^ JN. duct of the war, to Impress upon the 1 / perpetrators of these crimes the Rlehmon f aversion with which civilization rp-ltionaI offlcl *gards their present wanton acts.*' fronted wi The reported action of the Bol-. supp,y'nK ______________ } closing dow (Continued ou Page 8.) |scattered tl ?? Do You Want Your Papei If you don't you are liable to miss some 1 * # * PAY IN ADVANCE. It Is up to you. 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C., my courses daw cd ac ddih UGHT AT CLEMSON 1 "If tR W iRUi Irtmont Authorities Kn IS FAST CRUMI ? and Chemistry Terms ). A. T. c. students. General March Says w Has Sent More Than College, Sept. 23.?Th 000 Men to Franc tment has authorized the "^'?!!'n"on-co"-ege-0t continuous noon m; naming vrurpB c?ur?BS ring and chemlBtry to terms of three months (^mang Are Fighting lents entering the S. A. T. ;e these courses or the us- ately to Hold the 1 lonths s. a. T. c. courses Hindenburg Line Whi will take the eight term ,p, . engineering and chemistry red en* 1 college until the courses ~" Jted. It is possible that Wtshington, Sept. 23.iltural course'* in the S. j)ro0f that the German pow iy be allowed also. Atten- ... . crumbling came in the i ed to the fact that the reof the war department ment by G<>n Ma,ch' <h,?l trlct as to scholastic pre- ,hat tho news from 11,1 bilt nd since some who have NVas "continually good and led may be thrown out on 750.000 American troops 1 nt and some for physical been "".barked f,?' oversea e college may be able to Just six months ago t more S. A. T. C. men. ,,UI1K h,H ful1 military pow< re now enrolled 200 non ,he Hr,tish Iines in l>ican students. 500 S. A. T. C. Kreat d,lve that was lo en< no 200 enlisted men f..r in a cashing victory, training is desperately to -y. tottering Hindenburg line, 1 EAR IN PRISON "lve from whlch 1 i?p V I.' C mrKSON "l:" buck "hl , Kbv. r.t. HKKHUW heen hurled. Side by sid French Mid American air inlstef, Convicted of l>is- ,?.ok<.n definitely the Gem Sent to Penitentiary sive power in official opin in Atlanta. Already tho American f France are more than half 11, Sept. 23. The Rev. F. as whole German arm; of Gaffnev, found guilty ti(je Qf American men towai iral court here I* riday af- js continuing at an even p disloyal utterances, was Situation Today. lew trial this morning hy llie nltuatlon on the vai rlos A. Woods and sen- tje fronts waB tersely su serve six months In the by Q0n March today as foil iltentiary at Atlanta. Mr. Mows during the week ids a dramatic talk ?n the b_3 bc?? continually i aiter he was refused a|tln?ously good. On the wesl V i r\ cr that h n A !/l . ... our new ,,ne in Lorraine wj one with him. that he wa? ptahl|lzed. The enemy naa ?r anything that would rledly ,tr.nKth<(n|n>, ?? ,, i (lavs. fense, the socalled Krlem ?" which lies only a mile or t w OR OPPOSES of our new line on a front FIXING OF PRICES twenty miles from near Ms the Moselle river at Vand iee President liefore Ho a,e now ten miles away f in the Matter of Fixing and twelve niiles a the Price. Metz_____ (hi to St. (aiientin Manning is making "In Pioardy the British m '(Tort to hold a conference renewed their advance on [lent Wilson before the brai-St. Quentln front, to rice fixing of cotton Is ?I'i Hindenhurg line In s| lie has asked that the concentration of the enemv efer action, and has made 'ending this sector the Hi an audience with the '"ad steady progress. and f oday. The telegram sent 's reported tc? have lost vo ddeiit follows: '( 's now officially oonflr (lent, Washington, I). C : 10.000 prisoners have been iisolute confidence in your <ln 'be plateau northwe: 1 with every desire to aid snns the French have eon ndertaking in support of force hack the enemy's h? desire to aid in every un- ,,n'i' they are now within h in support of the war. I from the junction of the resent certain information ronfI an<' 'be fhemln-Des-P price fixing of cotton and within ten miles of Laon, ou defer action till after being shelled, d request the privilege oT "The .eports in the press at such hour on Monday successful operations of th you. army on the Halkan front Richard I. Manning. tain. The Serbian army aft "Governor.'' Bulgarians on a front of t< ? miles and drove them lu i In Need of Teachers. twenty miles. According d. Va., Sept. 23.?Educa reports British have reop< ials of the state are con- tivitles In Palestine." th the problem of either The western battle wall 1.172 school teachers or'rebuilt by the allied and n several hundred schools forces, according to ohserv hroughout the state. When the first American ar ly trampled out the St lient, the last posibility of i strategic stroke passed. T! p StnnflPfl ^ faces now a straight line ? * North Sea to the Swiss hord big news by failing to ar0 no salients to give an nlty for flank operations, will be your fault, for ,,lP power for a conter newspapers, must help should be found, and mi tborlties here see no chanc are yet to send In their ?the German high comma ible, which will enable face the costly business of f aoir subscription. tack. TTley have nothir ess, indicates the date pointed out. not a single tri .ngultTz D1 91 s".1 *No8W S,Uon t0 9how for lhc,r *re' jed unless he has paid Something More, ind after that date he . "Rut it Is more than a ret r label and figure out tensive line that faces then your subscription and .. . . v say. Along the center of er year sweep of the front Ilritish ar n advance of the pres- arm,PS aro "Arming ahead i day. driving and harassing hs In advance of the ,prp<' Herman divisions wltl Pershing's men stiupr1 ance of October 1. and Conflans anti. ^ threat the enei^^^ET^ ft $r- rv?-?? (ContiRueJjj^^ h'lf '* ltinup.*l on ^?Ke Kighl ASTER I ?APER IN A LIVE TOWN TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1918. m THREATENING FIRE BUNG IN HEART OF CITY try America Several Residences, Jail and 1,750,- Other Buildings Saved by :e. Narrow Margin. Wash) trayal ol NEWS ONE RESIDENCE IS BURNED ^u'ssian nrpssinir Desper- GreRory-Hood Livestock Co \>tterinp Lose Tractors and St<ible and toundin* ch Allies W. M. Barton's Home is which t _ . , giving tc Destroyed. Other have de ?Striking Fire yesterday morning at eleven ieaders, er is fast o c'0(,'< destroyed the large feed barn their asi of the Gregory-Hood livestock com Germans jnnounci pany between (Jay and Dunlap gjneered of staff, streets. together with two new farm i{US8ja 1 tie fronts tractors stored in the building, and \ow the I that 1,- threatened for a time the county jail ]trr.v have now aa,t several nearby restdenees. I he farce sti s service. jajj caUght from sparks on several sheviki 1 he enemy occasions but by playing a small into k,,, ;r against pose on the roof the blaze was sub- oijos of ly in the (|ued. The residences of W. H. Millen Kumani; 1 the war aml K w Slstare, on Dunlap street, German Today he an<j that of J. D. Poag. on Gay service hold the street. were several times in serious western the defen- linger of destruction. A half hour The s? he struck aftor the beginning of the tire, and ,.iosure : ch he has after (he flames had been mastered. man )lir e Hrltish. residence in the next block, or- <() kj|, dies have 0?pjO(t by VV. M. Harton and family. ,(Ut to s tan offen- was found to be in flames and was sa)p j,ol lion here. a,, but destroyed before the firemen ,nK to } orces in rould get to It. Most of the house- p:,triotio as strong p0ld effects were saved. their en? r and the While the fire was in progress and transmit: rd France at a tlmP when many of the nearby telligenr iU'0' buildings were in great danger, all Pisjvo n, the prisoners in the jail were remov-|n?L.c? rlntto p,i to the city lockup as a matter of|to |nHtitt mmarlzed prpCaution against the burning of the t|ons an. lows: ja|i. man Cat from all Tbe joss to the Gregory-llood Kxplai and eon- livestock company. outside of tlioi on who tern front] two tractors, is small, the building many ,-?< is quickly having been insured for $1,000. the themselV been hur- two tractors, however, wore valued thfi Run ne of do- nt nbout three thousand dollars, on <he Ro,H hlld line, wbich there was no insurance. There (ho effor o in front WRB a considerable amount of nn<j oth( of about foodstuff in the building, which was a8BaBBinj ilzeray to ae8troyed. One tractor was removed _ iers. We from '1he building after the flames rom Con- wot.p discovered, but the boat pre- MM It I way front , vented a re-entrance into the building. ] The fire department did some very n<l French] effective work when once on ihe|<->?at the Cam- scene, but there were many com-] rrti .ward the ments heard as to the tardiness of its dte of the arrival. There would have been forces de- a much greater conflagration had 'f itish have not arrived when it did lit" rtahh-. Wash he enemy built of wood and rather ohl. hutned jllini|ri.,i ry heavily quickly and made a very hot fire. s..jHte tl med that fl;|R was ' a,',"'r7l; UEITBUCAN M AKES , tinnod I" MANY W1I.I) <11 A1K.ES ,jlvnneh *st troops ? starts r>< alf a mile Ro|>h,ns rtnims That Political In- public <i ames/and Huence Was Hrought to Hear is simlla which is in l'avor of South. stead of t . rior flel< about the p sorhinn Washington Sent are cer- that political influence has been Secret acked the brought to hear on Secretary Maker iventy-flve in making selections for cantonment nor whiI tck about sites and for the location of other war employe to official activities were made in the house by lio'' nat cned ac- Representative Robhins of Pennavl- c'f>npral vanin. Republican. Discrimination ,,a,v an has been 'n favor of the South as against the Pi'tinr i American 'h was charged hv Mr. Robhins, D < D l,v ers here. wbo declared that to Democratic ters ove tuy swift- States the treasury is sending a flow ifihiel sa- of to ai<1 in meeting political ex- 1,1 th? ^ iL'tMl t ll O I* l'Pn i German 1M nc IO* he enemy This is true. ?nid. in spite of ,n ,our 1 from the the fact that the North furnished pa,^'n er. There morp "ten for the war than the Referr opportu- South, and that it pays much more petary N Even If taxes to carry the burdens of the "We a offensive war Th<> representative declared pendltun lltary an- that 16 Southern States have receiv- q ill red t( e of that 0(1 f,om the federal government a to- zation ar nd wou'd tfll of $190,306,991 for camps and are Willi rontal at- war P'ants. while Pennsylvania, he are Willi ig. it is Rafl received only a little more less con: itegic po- than $8,000,000 and other Northern Amerlcai at ^rlve. States have received proportionately that we the same. until #t< ftored of- Replying to Representative Rob- "We s a. officers b,n8? Representative Hefltn of Ala- glum. F the preat f h***1 ovtPefflHocVat.) denied the oharpe pressed { id French 'hat 'he administration has displayed resolved nljrht and Hf,pt1onaIlsm. He said Pennsylvania doni and the bat- had (received from $.r>0t<H % n<.iO to from the tout rest. fSoJftOO.OOO for every $1,*..V,000 no Germ re Metz HPp/t 'n Alabama, and that the Ntfttth of despo 'hat now Re'/erally had enjoyed the expend!- mitted t| 4it >15ftonnoQ0 for every $1,- Ization ni tlnued: or?. iVS^jr N\arrpn AM ' ^8o??the- I"Meoui thor In <"".n of labor anj the^Th^- members |The dhwJS ^ the American labor mission ,,,teSto h ?irr&saBag**?J * T* r~"" ^EWS * " 1 SUBSCRIPTION $2.00 A YEAR NIA BETRAYED BY PAf I CfT PI HTUVIUP : BOLSHEVIKI CHIEFS vULLtll l/LU I fllPlU ?m1 Agents Into Mttlc Coun- FOR THE BELGIANS to Wreck Organization of Army. Campaign on This Week and Local Red Cross Hopes for Ington. Sept. 19.?The be- Good Results, f Rumania and elaborate ad- ______ lans of Germany and her . . . _ \\ UoiHhoviki . tor ALLOTMENT 1,651 POUNDS and murdering loyal Ru . ? , Russians and I'oles are ex- t iu? r>n ? * i j ^ ..... . . , People of the City Are Asked to detail by chapters of the as; secret Russian documents ' ontrihute Warm Clothings he American government Is shoes. Blankets and Other > the public. Necessities. instalments of the series scribed how the Bolshevik! nun iroizay and a sconii appeal has come to* mclates, were bought by the chairman from headquarters urgi. f??r millions in gold and en- that every household in the country v their bloody overthrow of contribute as much as possible on or benefit of their masters the drive for clothing for the destistory is told of how, while tute Belgian people. The apportion- t d-Litovsk peace conference ment of 1,651 pounds Is the minimum 11 was in progress, the Mol- amount to be sent and it is earnestly ivere sending hired agents asked that much more be given, nania to disorganize the ar- Everyone is urged to send as much Russia's ally, dethrone the as possible of warm substantial *' in king and turn loose th.' ciothing. shoes, blankets and bedr * armies occupied there for ding to the home of Mrs. L. C, Pa^ln a great offensive on the seur not waiting to be solicited. front. ?cond phase of the latest dis- Th,> following letter has been reshows the Bolshevik at CJer- ceived: ection undertaking not only September 1, 1918. refrnctory Russian generals. ' ? fR"' Co-Workers: hoot individually and whole- T,,o gratifying results of the camish soldiers who were refus- paign for the collection of clothn,'~ i III ?e sold to the tSermans and the destitute of Belgium, vmt.. ^ ally keeping the field against vv:is inaugurated in March and closed 'tnies. One of the documents on J"ne 1. furnish grounds for deep. | s orders from the German in- satisfaction to all that ll--?vc partic|^| e service to "take most de- Pated in it. The Amertcan-i;^^ ' easures, up to shooting en i,s characteristic readil ~A igainst Polish troops.M and pHed all the machinery ofjn<v 3, ite surveillance of institu- ionization to the solicitation, I il persons including the Ro- tion and shipment of gifts, anj< I Hj ^ I holic Polish clergy. initial drive lasting a wee?. I g ? iatory notes by Edgar Sis- ^ channel for a steady flow<a(J m f obtained the documents and 1,1"ut,on!' whhh has not yet ?. i 5 i.?u?? i? The individual Red Cross >, ? in no mt in niv. u > H cs. including a story of how throughout the counHorton. ~ lanian minister, arrested by themselves whole-hei. hevik a* re|cas?'d through exacting labor in\olva Russlin Rob- ^ ts of Ambassador Francis wor^ ?f relief. ( onin ?*r diplomats, barely escaped '7-ations of many kinds, busr. y ^tion. and Individual donors hav? V ed so generously to the api | the commission for relief ol , v nil I O 4 V I-I 4 / ! V.4M. i'I' *'" I is enabled to announrp thf \ * FIA NG TO BREEZE upwards Of rivr thmisanh?tium. i f J Cm') til ill IT I'.Ofh *"* J'?W ;??*{** "*'*? ** 'tf *. | "12 represent* more than fifteen million * ntluivhi^in Manifested as See- ;,nm,ntj. n*.\ Mi- ll<>i>ts ltan- h'nt th - pnnse of the need of a ... Irnvi' p. npi. in desperate straits the ner to I lare. irriititiidi- of the Belgian destitute nd or their American spokesmen is inuton, Sept. L'T While a heartfelt. \ formal reoopn I'reni li veterans stood at r? \ >u herewut' . which j^Mll serve to He fourth Liberty loan bono v,,ur own ^i,rt in this wo'*. hit which can not add to the satis i raised Saturday to the top ... m taction you must feel in having ; J reasury, where it will t,. ,p .r,. |n |j,,. alleviation of distre ',JL out the loan campaign which and to sery. \t Saturday. It was the first Vast as has been the response to isplay of the banner, which n,i^ -'"peal, it is not yet enough. , . ? , . , the ten million inhabitants r to the emhelm of the third , , occupied region, one-half e' ept that it wears tour in n,|IS| look to the outside worla^. three blue bars on the inte their protection against the rigors ot1 1 of white. winter. All supplies of clothing and aty McAdoo. from the south raw materials have disappeared from the treasury hoisted the- ban- Belgium, and the world's markets e a throng or government can not provide the garments or the \s and represenfati\es of ."I- material necessary to make them in ions cheered repeatedly for sufficient quantities to meet the need. Parshing, France, Kngland The story of physical suffering and tl the other allies. Moving ?f 'he device ' e-ortcd,to by the inramoras ground off films, genious population to provide bodily Ill be displayed soon in th?;i i protection is pathetic in the extreme, r the entire country. The J To relieve a plucky and long-suffer- f . who took a prominent pa-t 'ng nation from the necessity of remony include members of fashioning Inadequate garments from f* ~ ch Foreign Legion, who are tablecloths, blankets and sheets (all 1 - * the country during the cam- of which have even now almost disappeared), we must open up the k ing to the fourth loan. Sec- "'or of partly used clothing that tcAdoo said: are *? found in almost every famre prepared To make anv ex- Uy ln T!,f VftlU-e of thoso e or blood that may he re inestimable. Making them f , . . . ..." . ... available for Helgium and Franco . > ) do this great job for civili- . , , .. . . means saving human beings from id humanity, and because we _ V . ? . ???? i ... , suffering and death, and helping to ng to spend our blood, we n. to expend what l? o( far|m"*" " rominK ??<" "<? . nequenre, ovry dollar nl " Po??e??IO(! some men.ur? . . of health and vigor. * , i treasure we ^ iw have orj ... . , . _ rne National Re.j Cross has onco V^. may hope to have from now ? _ 0 y?i*> + .. ... , , more offered to use its efficient or?rnity. i << nt, ganization in furthering this work, .re resolved to libera^Bel- In fhp wppk of aept6mher 23rd to ranee and the othet ,op- 2(>(h under its auspices, another enjeoples of the earth, _\jV" a?e prRpf1r Cami>a|Rn w|], ,)p lna,IfruratP(1 that democracy and free- for thp colleftion of clo(hlnK. It iR civfllzatirtYi shall not perish (.onfl(lpntIy expected that this r<i face of the earth, and that newpd appeal will not fail to elicit an kaiser nor any other kind nn evpn prpafpr rpsp(mf<(. ,hnn bp_ t shall ever again be per- fofe Bpcauge th fg 0 menace the peace of civil- ... . .dk . 7 and will be contlMbis during the 1 the immortal principles of ^ 7*01 . . _ ? . ? j . t . period of the war. tlW friends of Belmess, of iustice, of law and rWuiiam Sftuiut. ~ ~ " ~ f ^nd^rd Catot^ (Continued or Pa?e 8.) ^ n ctalmsdiar Reev ?> nn<f grant \ ' , ,, J o. their very\ jKpliiifF .7. v^: *