Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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^ Wi?nwMMBMWMWimwirt?mii?tiiiwuu??iuMmcapi???<u? tin n iiaihuiituuj ntunuui jaimti ?1ifBuwtttBiwmnMnnmituaoiun?uuuitiinnHmuniiiiimmitTmuiiiinitti News fort MMwmniiiwiwi iiwmmiiiimiimmiiimi wMwiiimniinimMi win wiMiiiiiiinHiiimfiiiniiii MHiMiimiiiiMiiiKuiiMiiiiiiuitiuiimniiiiitiiiiNMiimiiituiiiiuiiiurMiiuiiiiiiiMiiiiiniituiitiiiitiinMii FARMERS SHOULD PRODUCE AMPLE FOOD SUPPLIES Jan. 29. 1918.?The State Council of Defense, in conjunction with the / food administration and the farm demonstration and home demonstration departments, will shortly begin the spring campaign for food produc tion and conservation. Notwithstanding the splendid results from the last spring's campaign waged all over the United States, the food situation of the country is now more acute than ever before. This is due to the largely increased demands from the government, to the demaging of a large portion of the corn crop of the northwest by early frost, IAJ UiC lilJ\ALJ VX U?v n?iwv* ?? and oats crop by the unprecedentedly severe winter and to the tremendous losses from freezing in transit and in homes of canned goods, fruits potatoes and other perishable food products. The congested conditions of the railroads in this section are greatly delaying the movement of food, and it seems likely that acute shortages of certain food products may become prevalent before long in our towns and cities. Should such a condition arise, the non-agricultural population of the State will have to depend largely on the reserve food sup plies on the farms, and the farmers should realize that it may be up to them at an early date to release n??t nt thmV onmltia cnnnlipa M , corn, potatoes, pork, etc., for the relief of the towns. We know oi instances where merchants have been forced to import meal and com from outside the State after offering the farmers $2.00 per bushel foi corn and being unable to induce them to bring it in. The corn proii duction of South Carolina for 1917 was approximately forty-three million bushels, and this figure is an adequate supply for the entire human and animal population of the State. The corn coming in from outside will leave a surplus in oui barns for rats and weevils to consume. and besides, the unnecessary imports are putting an extra burden upon transportation facilities which we have no right to demand. It seems to us that patriotism demands that the farmers all over the State supply the towns with corn, and it also seems to us that present circumstances do not warrant a higher price than $2.00 per bushel to the farmer. When we remember that the price to the western man for his wheat has been fixed at only slightly higher than this figure, it would seem evident that we have no light to demand more, even if circumstances made it possible to do so. Those who' have recently famililliATMBAlnAo trnfV fV a rrftn rv?o1 M i^cu uicuiovivco niui tuc food situation in the United States, are convnced that the ony safe polcy for our farmers to pursue in 1918 is to bend every effort to the production of ample food supplies for the feeding of the entire population of the State. Our people must be fed, no matter whether cotton is ten cents or fifty cents per pound. We all want to raise all the cotton we can under the present circumstances, and we should do so; but, first, let us all plan for an adequate food acreage. There is no othei safe or reasonable course undei present conditions. D. R. Coker, ' T * Chairman State Council of Defense HE WAS A SUCCESS. \ And yet he died poor, unhonored and unrecognized, and he rests in e forgotten grave; but he loved God he loved his fellows, and he did his best to translate that love into service. And that is success. We mis judge men. We measure them bj the family standards. The dollai standard is useless, for Christ diec poor, and Commodore Vanderbill left millions. Fame is not an accurate measure, for sometimes it rests upon falsehood. History is not al ways true, and some little men havt great reputations, and some greal men are unknown. Kant was dead long before men realized the great nets of his thought. Education is nc \ he Farmer! it iHMtiiiiiiiMiiimiitniiiiitiimiimntiititiiitiHuiMtnitnnuiiiiiiifiiiiiiiiiiiwMuuuiHiiiiiirMnitiirinmiw*.? iiiiitiniuiiiuimiiitmitiiiitiiiiiitiiiniiiuuuimiiiniiiiriiitiiiiiiiitiimiiiiiuttiiitimiiiiiuuiiiifiimtiHmiiiii true test of success. The unlettered father is sometimes a much bigger man than his cultured son, and the doctor of divinity is often a lesser t saint than some of his uneducated . hearers. Mountain peaks and stars are grand, but they are no more i useful nor beautiful than the blades : of grass. To be just and merciful; to love honor and truth; to be pure and kind and loving; to live our I faith and help our neighbors, this is true success.?The Christian Guari dian. , DAY'S FOOD ON A WHEATLESS DAY i . > Greenville Daily News* The planning of meals for' a | , wheatless day is a game where it is ? easy to get caught one's guard. ; Wake up women of America. Make . wheatless, wheatless. [ Breakfast Sliced Bananas ' Puffed Rice Top Milk Cornmeal Griddle Cakes 4 Corn Syrup i , Coffee . Milk for Children I Lunch or Supper i Casserole of Hominy, Tomatoes and Cheese Stewed Prunes Scotch Francies I ( Dinner , Cold Beef Tongue ' Belgian Baked Potatoes Mashed Rutabaga , 1 Tapioca Pudding. , Scotch Fancies?2 cups rolled oats 1-4 cup milk; 1-4 cup molasses; 1 1-2 tablespoons cooking oil; 1-4 . teaspoon soda, 1 teaspoon salt. Grind '* a i1 ' , xne oa^s, mix wnn me umer muiex. ials. Roll jnto a thin sheet and cut in squares. Bake 20 minutes in a, , moderate oven. i Belgian Baked Potatoes?Wash, . pare and slice potatoes as for French . fried. Lay the strips in an oiled . granite pan and bake in the oven. Salt and serve. Tapioca Pudding?5 tablespoons pearl tapioca; 4 cups scalded milk; j i 4 tablespoons Indian meal; 1 cup i milk; 3-4 cup molasses; 3 table; spoons cooking oil, 1 1-2 teaspoon i salt. Soak tapioca two hours in cold i water to cover. Pour scalded milk ; over Indian meal and cook in double boiler until mixture thickens. Add tapioca drained from water, molasi ses, oil and salt; turn into oiled ; pudding dish and pour over remaini ing milk, but do uot stir. Bake one and one-fourth hours in a fnoder. ate oven. . THE BATTLE CRY OF FEED 'EM. \ ' . Yes, we'll rally round the farm, boys I! We'll rally once again, Shouting the battle cry of Feed 'Em! , We're got the ships and money t And the best of fighting men, , Shouting the battle cry of Feed 'Em! i The onion forever, the beans and the . corn, ( Down with the tater?it's up the next morn? While we rally round the plow, boys, Ajid take the hoe again, Shoutine the battle cry of Feed Em! ( ?Fred Emerson Broogs. . ENGLISH USING HORSE MEAT. London.?At a meeting of the butchers of Harrow recently one of their number said the shortage of meat h^d become so serious that the authorities had asked him to start killing horses and he was be' ginning with a hundred head. Horse 1 meat, he said, would perhaps not be ' | very palatable to some, but it had ' to come. A WISE SON. 1 ri Kermit Roosevelt, son of the ColI ' nnol oTri^onflir Viae a f?lonr insicht. t into that gentleman's disposition. jThe Ladies Home Journal quotes him as saying of his father, "You j know dad likes to be top dog?the most prominent person wherever he tlis. If he is at a wedding he wants I ^ to be the bride and if he's at a | funeral he wants to be the corpse." >; ?Wilmington Dispatch. I ' TANK DRIVE MADE BRITISH AG Experiences of Modern Lieut. Jno. E. Evans, 1 where In ] The following letter, giving vivid I [ description of modern warfare, was 1 I written recently by First Lieutenant 1 Jno. E. Evans, who had actual experience in "Tank Drive" made t against Boche by the British, late c in November: s "Dear Sisters and Brother: c | I am going to write you,of the i battle that began Nov. 26th. Of i I ? - rto ryomaa n-f nlnrps hnvp to 1 1 tUUIOC WI1V *??**? V* , I be omitted. t We got our orders to move and found we were a single brigade de- } tached from our Division and sent * to a fight, we knew not where nor ( when. We left our comfortable i lines the 14th and did all marching * at night. The first night we went f about sixteen miles through a mis- * erable, cold, disconsolate downpour. 1 It was inky dark, and you only fol- * lowed the one in front. All offi- < cers rode but had to go at a walk. < When I dismounted from my horse I was so cold I could hardly stand. ^ After a short sleep we had to "stand j by" ready to go when orders came. t Next place we stopped for three t days so knew we were nesiring the T fight. On the 19th the Colonel and ^ Adjutant went forward to recon- | noiter and left me to bring up the j Headquarters to our position, before the battle. 1 The roads were simply packed ' with traffic and we finally reached our position in a big wood. We had ^ supper," consisting of tinned beef and army biscuits. There were about ^ 20 of us in a cupola not as long or ^ as wide as our front hall. All* about us were other units and tanks by the ^ score. j This waB a new departure in the , mode of fighting and all were on , edge over it. I have already writ- t ten that the artillery usually fire , incessantly for two or three days be- j fore an attack to cut the barbed j wire between the trenches. Now j you heard only an occasional gun , along the front wjth nothing to in- , dicate that a great attack was about to be sprung. ^ The weather was dismal, clouds ^ i?, wuu a slow drizzle. All at once , 1U VY, mwu M M.... you heard the guns begin firing all J ^ along fye line.' You knew the Tanks t had gone, but you didn't hear them 1 when they went. The guns were simply firing a smoke barrage to j cover the approah of the Tanks. t They went first, crossing the trenches, trampling and pulling up the , almost impassable snarls of barbed wire. Behind them came the infanI try. Then the guns would dash for- j ward to better positions in true open warfare style. Here the artillery used "open rights" for the first time since trentfh warfare began. 1 The Boche were completely taken j by surprise, though at; certain places } machine guns resisted stoutly. The tanks would go crawling up to their ^ emplacements and silence tnem. ^ Next morning we advanced quite a distance. Had nothing to eat all day. Numerous Boche prisoners could be seen coming back. We slept in the famous Hindenburg trench ( system in a kitchen where the cook 3 had just put on about thirty pounds 1 of beef and about two bushels of ^ dried vegetables to cook. The stove was a beauty. Everywhere you saw ' an abundance of provisions (news- 1 paper talk to the contrary) that 1 they had to throw away. The adju- ' tant and I shared a blanket, it was ^ bitterly cold and we were covered 1 ?ij.1. A I ( W1U1 Iliuu. ^ Next morning we advanced to a . ridge to a position that viewed the whole of the proceedings. It was here that the Tanks suffered quite 1 heavily. One had a direct list that ^ set the patrol on fire and burned ^ three men, leaving only the charred 1 stumps. This was right by our ' headquarters. We were in a Boche observation post, a remarkabily well built place, of concrete, level with the ground, and with a deep shaft below that. The men, the signal officer, and I slept in the shaft. You were abso- * I lutely safe there unless they gassed I you which luckily they didn't. . Up until thi? time non? of our y BY r AINST THE BOCHE Warfare as Told By Who I# Now "SomeFrance." jrigade had been wounded or killed. !' 1J ' spent my time dressing wounded Tank men. I stood on top of this disabled 0 ank and watched an attack| and a fl :ounterattack. It was a wonderful light. Our men were driven from >ne place by simple superiority of lumbers, the Boche rushing up div- ^ sion after division to this place. They came back, dug themselves in md then things came to a standstill. It was then that we began to suf- ^ :er, as we were in open view and hey began to shell us heavily. Sevsral officers and men were killed and voUnded. I had rather hard going, k is the mud stuck to one's feet in e * jreat gobs and if you tried to go icross fields you would get hopeessly tangled in barbed wire. I ;ore my trousers in trying to do so r ind as we had no Kit with us * wouldn't change or mend them. 4 We, all this time were covered vith mud from head to foot. Never f tad a chance to wash your face, or . ihave. You ate with your hands md on the whole we were a diarep itable bunch, that made one think x ve had returned to primitive days ( ind had onljr one object in life, z lamely, to kill. About the 30th we got orders to nove and we all began to feel j jheery over the prospects of a bath, j i change and a rest. This was not t ? be realized as wu were suddenly iwung about to go in line where the Soche had made a fairly success- ^ ?ul counterattack. I remember we ^ il lhad to wait in an open field ( vhile the Colonel and other officers } econnoitered positions. While here, ifter having ridden all day without anything to eat, we were so tired we ^ * * * ?? *!<? mnnnH /it I iimpiy lay cowu uu mc ^ was still raining) and rested. We j jot into position afterwards and we ( found a miserable sandbag dugout ;hat was the filthiest place imaginable. It wa? better than the wind ind rain, so here we stopped. While there we made many j friends, undesirable ones, though, ^ :hey were in the form of vermin md "creepers." A few days after :his we moved to a fairly decent 1 :upola and as I couldn't stand the ] wretched "creepers," took a bath in ] i bucket, in the open> with shells 1 bursting all around. Felt quite respectable again then. We stayed here four days, all the while getting shelled heavily. Lost ' nine horses and one man by one j oinnp. It is a most distressing )UVM ;hing to wait"and wonder if the next]J shell would get you. We then moved to a more quiet spot some five hundred yards away ( 3ut had only bell tents to live in. } [t had snowed a few days before j ind there we were in these tents with not a fire anywhere near. Your feet became soaked, then nearly \ froze, and going to bed was your ; inly hope of warmth?and there it i was' freezing. j The worst part of a medical offi- 1 :er's business is you have to go to i man during the .worst of the shelling when everyone else has taken cover. I would go, but I tell ] pou I didn't relish the job. I would ' leave my medical orderly behind as ' it was no use exposing two men to 1 :hese shells. The thought, and not - * oifiiAr. would in A picasaub Vlie fringe on me: "If I should be hit, ,10 one would lcnow it, and perhaps ' iie out alone, or be killed, and no trace found, and be reported raiss__ ? ing. Well, after the morale and prac- , tically everything else had been ] fought and froze out of us, we were ( taken out and how we did welcome , the sight of a fire, to say nothing of Jther comforts of life! Here we are n?w resting and I lope to get leave to go to Paris 1 soon and while there hope to run i across some one I know, or at least ; in American. Lovingly, fan. 1, 1918. John. Break your Cold or LaGrippe ivith a few do?M of 669. GENERA * Greenwood is to have a rural poice system and the present system 1 i to be abolished. * i V ? 1 Food is scarce in Russia. Some 1 f the larger cities have no bread < ,nd very little foodstuffs. 1 A submarine drive will accomlany the expected German drive on he West front. Forty-seven women and children cere killed in the air raid over Lon- 1 Ion, and 169 others were wounded. 1 I it ** '! January 30th, was "Tag Your Shovel Day". The idea is to get iveryone to save coal, even a shovslful. ' i i ' . : > . Even the little children who live tear the fighting lines have to wear ras masks. The gas is no respecor of persons. . Maxin Gorky, the famous Russian lovelist, has been slightly wounded n a rio? in Petrograd. The Owasco was sunk by a subma ine in December. Only two of heT :rew of 97 men were lost. She carled a cargo of gasoline. The oil from the castor bean is to >e used for lubricating the aeroplanes. Ordinary oils will solidify it a great height. Japan says that she is responsible for the peace in that part of the vorld and if anything occurs to the letriment of the interest of Japan, jrbper measures will be taken. A shortage , of gasoline is* being felt in JBamberg. It is not due to my real shortage of gas but to its lot being shipped on account of the congestion of freight. J Finland has sent an ultimatum to ;he Bolsheviki at Petrograd threatening a declaration of wstr if the Bolsheviki does not stop furnishing ;he Finnish revolutionists with arms John S. Parsons, fish and game warden of Virginia, wa* found dead in his office. A note was left saying to notify his brother. A pistol vas also found. Arrangements have been ' completed whereby 500,000' German alien enemy will be registered. KVimna >iavp hepn distributed to all parts of the country. # Four of the biggest of the Mississippi River traffic steamships were :aught in the ice gorges in the Tennessee River and were smashed. The loss is estimated at $200,000. Immediate plans for the rehabilitation of the Holy Land to lit it for a home for the Jews, is under conjideration by the officers of the ZionI ist organization, of New York. It mil be a great task. Six men were killed and several were wounded in a torpedo explosion at Norfolk. No suspicious circumstances surrounded the explosion but a thorough report will be made. The bodies of the Japanese soldiers and sailors that fell in the deBtroyer action in the Mediterranean last June, have been cremated and their ashes returned to their homes. Oil will be the next industry that will come under the control of the government. Plans for instituting a licensing system have been presented to the Fuel Administration. Value of all farm crops for 1917 by States, not including the value of animals and animal products, Bhows Illinois first, Texas second, and Iowa third. The town of Mackay Queensland in Australia, is almost completely submerged. A cyclone swept that part of the world and caused a tidal wave. Great loss of life was the result. The Andania, one of the Cunatd ines steamships, was struck by torpedo off Ulster coast - Sunday" 1 norning. The flrst torpedo out the second struck amidship.fl^H :arried about 200. people, ' fortyy^j^M whom were passengers, ZzM According to the Detroit F!r?*e I Press Canada is the only Ally that I is getting our bituminus coal. ThenrJ was a surplus of fifty million in 1917 over 1916 and '?of this I amount Canada received 2,500,^00** In May an exposition will be $eld l In New York to increase the eat in more attractive homes. thought that better homes; wili home defenders. This is under t auspices of the national better The food problem will be solved;! by the use ofN tablets. Th^y ^^^^ only delay in their being on aalkfl now is that each one costs - ' According to the department tabor the workmen in the UnlfcodB States are' sufficient to supply demand. Of course there some inconvenience, for buil^q^^ 3 yards and in like manner :sorae'^^^ have to move to different:loc?i^^H > Mrs. Harry C. Henderson named Fuel Administrator for ' really "boBsing" the .deHyery c/Jj coal in that town. When a'^rson.;! orders coal she inspects tha for hoarded coal before she^.pern^^^ Charleston, W. Va., has be4n'da^->i aged considerably by floods. \ The 1 Chesapeake and Ohio railroad tracica. and the light and power cqpSSffli^ bridge have been washed ai^jriw bridge had to be dynamited^fo lease the Ice gorge and safe"-' business section, of the city. In the testimony brought ' J the trial of Franz Von Rintelen and"! eleven associates fire bombs weree'l placed on board of the Lk^U^I on her last Voyage in May' Millions of dollars placing bombs 6n vessels and foi^fl menting strikes; , Gen. Robert E.' Lee's be presented to the Virginia of the Confederate Museum; at mond. His granddaughter/ Miss Anrt? Carter Lee, will present it tlur^j^fl Gov. Henry Stuart on We^qs^sfB The inscription shows that the^^wqraH was given to Gen. Lee J>y Maj. Gen. Wood has received, wpund on French soil. Five French J soldiers and two Americans killed and several more wounded by. the explosion of a shell. It .ndjt known just where they were at the' time. Gen. Wood is nfajking a toui of the French lines and the Amer$: can training camps behind the lines. Each alien enemy will! have ? to register and to furnish four photon graphs not^ larger than 3x8. It wil| be necessary for the registrant tic write his name across the fac& qt the photograph plainly so as not to ACT* obscure any of the features. If hefl cannot write he must place his thumb print in the space opposite the signature space. This will hav? to be done in the presence of offl.cers. - < . ?? ? Herr Karl Herman Torges "fidvocates repairing the ravages of- the world war through the practice oi _ 1??? ? ? ??* nwtr Tkfl . connTI. ruiygiuuy m uc* aiouj a uv _ Mi dary wife is to advertise the.fact ofl her offical marriage by .wearing afl secondary wedding ring of' elegant* and readily recognisable design? The State will adopt all of the oflfl springs resulting from the union^H This does not meet with a very orable reception by the German .-VI ' '-^ 1