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KIMMMtluilUUIIIimKlllllltHUIHnillllllUIIIIUtllHtlUnillNltllltlllllllllllDIUtWIIUINIMIIIItllllllUIIIIII ^uriuniiMiniiMiiiuiiiumniiiiiuiiiuiinitHHiiimimiiiNiiiinninriniiituiNUiiiiiiiMtiHiiiunMniiM ! GENERA A death decree has been given Bolo Pasha. The Teutons may make war on Russia again. There is no telling what the outcome will be. Negotiations between the United States and Mexico are about completed. For certain concessions to this government foodstuffs will be sent into Mexico. A Boston preacher scores the dresses worn by the women and girls. He says they are too low in some places and too high in others. f The gas service^ in Atlanta is being investigated. Consumers have been complaining that Hhey were paying for a far inferior grade of gas and besides they were getting poor service. C. C. Bunn of Cedartown, Ga., is held for violation if the Food Ruling relative to selling flour substiA A * 11 ava womorl lUteS. All wnuicoaicu an- ?>? ? against letting him have any supplies for ten days. Senator Peacock, the youngesl senator in the Georgia legislature has tendered his resignation to the governor. He has entered the service of Uncle Sam and is a Lieutenant. Vernon Cattle, the noted dancer, met death when the airplane almosl collided with another while he was / instructing an American cadet al Fort Worth, Texas, on last Friday. The Kaiser has again broken his promise by taking 2,700 Belgians from the town of Lokeron to do military duty on the west front. This promise was made to the pope as well as other neutral nations. The entire foreign commerce oi the United States is to be restricted in order thai tonnage may' be obtained to - transpd*tr supplies and soldiers to France. This is not ar embargo on imports and exports but merely to regulate them. ' Tommy Hitchcock, age 17 years, the youngest aviator in France has the distinction of bringing down two German airplanes. The first was a big albatross the kind used in the raids over England and the second was a,scout plane. He will be mentioned in the French army orders for his exploit and, also decorated. When the Gery Nunnery at Mon4"??ao1 woo ^ncf*?Avo^ Kv firp riPArl^j Wtai UVQV4 VJ VM J wj ? a hundred children are believed to have been lost. Fifty-five bodies have been recovered from the ruins. All the infants were asleep on the upper floors when the fire broke out. The adults were rescued by the firemen although a number were injured by the falling debris. Private McCreery deserted from the army in December when his unit was under orders: to go to France. He was trailed until h? was caught on the Mexican bordex in n flnntain nf Infantrv uniform. He was sentenced to twenty years hard labor. Senator Smith says that Congress will not fix the price of cotton now. J. D. Rogers, engineer on the New York-Jacksonville flyer, was hurt in a wreck 30 miles from Savannah. He was rushed to a hospital in Savannah for treatment, where he died. The mill operatives at Graniteville walked out. Over 600 men, women and children are demanding a twenty per cent increase. Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, former > British Ambassador to the United States, died of heart trouble at one \ o'clock Thursday morning at the * Government house in Ottawa, Canada. Although his health was nol good' it was not considered serious It was stated there was not the ; slightest doubt that he died directlj ' I as a result of his efforts during the l war. He was born in 1859. His &*? body will be shipped to England or ''tSJEV warahip for burial. illinium 111 nun illinium 111 imiiiiiiiiiii iiiiii ii it 1111 mini tin ii ilium mi mi inn titi mi milium ii nii!i:iiii'? = JL NEWS si |? Otto Water of Toledo, Ohio, has j asked for a discharge from the army j saying that he cannot fight his broi ther. He is not a full naturalized I American, he only married1 a Toledo girl. Several of his relatives have fallen in Germany and only one brother, a lad of 17 years, has been called to arms. He says that, ' he can't fight on this account. j A woman in White Bluff, Tena*,; wants German money molded into bullets to shoot the Kaiser with. She thinks it would a good idea to pay him in his own coin. A right good dinner was served , to 25 prisoners at the Tower in At-: , lanta by Jailor Holland. Nineteen! i courses were served. In the large . dining room the table was set. Un-J der each plate a comic valentine was^ placed which embodied all that the; , prisoner was there for. ^ rrr nr.T.u ~? XT:~1?:il^ r* n ueorge W. WCDU u,l mi^vim:, ua. i ' is the kind of farmer that we should j havfe by the score. He has sold in! Elberton three hundred pounds o^ turnips and has plenty more to sell. ' He banked them which kept them ! safe and solid from the freezes.' : They are firm and tender and arej very delightful. Mr. Cunningham of Hart County,; sold his last bale of cotton and re-1 ' ceived $250.37 for the cotton and: seed. i Francis J. Heney, special coun-j sel for the Federal Trade Commis. sion in its investigation of the pack-j ( ing industry, in a formal statement! tonight, announced that he wotildj hppome a candidate for the nomina-l k tion as Governor of California. Howard H. Arnold, for many^ v years a member of the house from! 1 Spartanburg, today announced that, he would be a candidate for rail-, I road commissioner in the primary | i this summer. His home is at Wbod-i II ruff. I __ The wife of General Sir Julian i , Byng is a novelist, having written j i "Barriers" and other volumes. Sir; 11 Julian could now write volumes i about barriers. 1 I Approximately $42,000 was paid i county last week by the federal court for property 'condemned in| connection with the establishment of a national reserve in that section, j r| These settlements were consummat-i ?I ed during the term of court just; ij completed at Greenwood.1 i Sir William Robertson, Chief of' > the British Imperial Staff, will be; [ succeeded by General Wilson, his; first aid. j Eggs are tumbling from their j i former dizzy high prices in Greeni ville. Eggs are now selling on the i- streets for 45c per dozen while they formerly sold for 75c. J A campaign is soon to be started i for more widespread Consumption j of Finny Tribe. The Government | is to send experts to Columbia to! i teach the oeoole to catch carp. The! i Bureau of Fisheries sent one of ' their men to Georgetown. Charles-! ! ton, Columbia and Savannah to look( 1 into the possibility of carp culture' in the rice fields and to confer with! the food administrator in Columbia < and good results are expected. William Stone, age 60, starved " to death in Lexington, Ky.. He ate only a few crackers a day fearing ' that he would lose his ^wealth which amounfed to $75,000, Probably the first woman railroad I station agent is Mrs. Julia A. Laugh j lin, of Ames. Ioy/a. She says that J at first she was quite a novelty with j the traveling public, but now they ; have gotten used to her. Her husi band was a conductor for 30 years. r Infants cotton socks, which used s to sell in Germany for six cents now > sell for 72 cents. Ladies stockings, t which used to sell for 56 cents are selling for $3.60 a pair. AMERICAN RED CRO ENROLL 24,000,01 CHILDREN IN Jl To the School Children of the Ui A Procla The President of the United the American Red Cross. It ij in one that I write you a word of so many of you are beginning th The American Red Cross h; Membership with School Activit the United States can find a ch The school is the natural cente] you can best work in the great we have all pledged ourselves. Our Junior Red Cross will 1 of service to your community ar over the world and guide your ser ideals. It will teach you now tc ing children elsewhere may have teach you how to prepare some 01 ed soldiers and homeless familie through the Red Cross Bulletins lief and rescue. And best of through any of your other schoc doing those kind things under yc the future good' citizens of this love. And I commend to all school simple plan which the American to provide for your co-operation, children will give their best servi and instruction of their teachers, chance for which you have beer 'and efforts in some measure to i (Signed) WOODRCN September 15,1917. Of the Junior Membership oi P. Davison, Chairman of the W; Red Cross, said: . "I believe a program has been : most important single movemer America for the protection of tt future of the people. "When I was talking with tt gram I then said that I believe Cross was as important as the and that alone from the standpoi Under the slogan "Every School a Pi Red Cross Auxiliary and Center for te: National Service," the Junior Red ai Cross has perfected plans for the en- th rollment of every school child in the j ^ United States as a nember of a Red ar Cross Auxiliary, the tiate^of the cam- in paign being from Lincoln's birthday, February 12, to Washington's birth- ^ da^, February 22.' ' aj The Junior Red Cross Is a branch id of the American Red Cross through Ci which every scirool in America is giv- N; en the opportunity to carry on author- ^ ized Red Croes work by forming a ec School Auxiliary, upon the payment H of twenty-fi-ne cents membership lee for each pupil enrolled in the school Qt or by a pledge of satisfactory service p< in Red Cross work. It is the only ol agency which is approved by school authorities to enlist the children In c patriotic work during the war. All is other organizations must work throp.gh di the medium of tJie Junior Red Cross, whose services have already been re- e] Quested by the United St/ates Food gi Administration and by the War Sav- ol G Ings Stamp Committee, of which ^ Frank A. Vandetrlip is c'haarman. a] The schools, ^however, are not the F only units in which Sch oofl Auxiliaries Q "may be formed. The ot'aer educational ~ units which have been recognized as g! [ suitable centers in w&ich to organize c Junior Red Cross vork are Agricul- 01 tural Clubs, Boy Sfcouts, Camp Fire ? Girls, Night Schools^ Sunday School t classes and such, authorized educa- j tional centers as "ma y be properly organized under the 'supervision of the local representatives of the Red Cross ; Chapter. y The United Status Department of: i Agriculture has already offered to ?st> ? the Agricultural Cbabs for Junior Re?I Cross work. "Erery child who is en- ' rolled in a Sc'hool Auxiliary i3 entitled < to wear a Re< i Cro6s pin, although, not I considered a regular member of th? I^ed Cross. Conference at "Washington. ^ A Confei/ence of prominent educa- < j .tors and persons interested in t'he ; ' work of the Junior Red Cross met ' in Wast Jngton, D. C.t January *7th | and 8th,. at the call of Dr. Henry N. ] MacCra- tken, National Director of the i i Bureau of Junior Membership. The presidi:^ officer was Dr. John H. i Finley,. Commissioner of Educat ion ; j for the State of * New York, and ' | Promi na at among those in atte nd' ance "we re Dr. Inlander P. Claxt dh, ! "United States C< >mmissioner of B du, cation, Ihe Red Cross Committee api pointed by the ; National Education I Association, consi sting of Dr. Finiley i as Chairman, Mrs . Mary C. Bradfo rd, I President of the N. E. A. ana jstiiie ; Superintendent f< ?r Colorado, Pro! lessor Marion L. Brittain, State Su; perintendent of G eorgia, Dr. Francis i G. Blair, State Superintendent of j Illinois, and Dr. J) largaret McNaught, i Assistant Commis aioner of Elemrn; tary Education of California, and the War Savings Edu cation Committ ee appointed from th s N. E. A., consisti ing of Dr. Finley as Chairman, IVDrs. I Bradford, Professc t F. B. Pearson, I Stats Superintend rat of Ohio,' und " - ? > SS TO 10 SCHOOL MR AUXILIARIES lited States: mation States is also President of . j from these offices joined , greeting- at this time when e school year. as just prepared a Junior ies in which every pupil in ' ance to serve our country. " r of your life. Through it cause of freedom to whichbring to you opportunities id to other communities all vice with high and religious save in order that suffers the chanc e to live. It will f the supplies which wound- . s lack. It will send to you the thrilling stories of re- > all, more perfectly . than i >1 lessons, you will learn by >ur teacher's direction to be great country which we all . r teachers in the country the Red Cross has worked out knowing as I do that school _ Ice under the direct guidance Is not this perhaps the l looking to give your time neet our national needs? V WILSON, President 1 ' ; ; # ? b the Red Cross, Mr. Henry ar Council of the American t made out here which is the it that was ever started in le American public and the ' le President about the proid that nothing in the Red Junior Membership work, int of our own people/' vfessor John D. Slnoop, Super dent of Sciioofls of Chicago. The keynote of the Conference was l effort to define the function ol e Junior Ite/l Cross, which was ated by Dr. MacCracken to - be [rst, Education .al, Second, Productive id Third, Fina.ncial, in the order >o: lportance nsxaed. 1 , '? The following are the members, o e Honorary, Advisory Committee jrnard M. Ba. ruch, Council of Nation Defence; Mary C. C. Bradford, Prds ent National. Education Association irrie Chapman Catt, President of th ational Suffrage Association an< roman's Committee Council of Na anal Defence; P. P. Claxton, Unit I States Commissioner of Education is Eminence; James Cardinal Git >ns, Arcrtilj.isliop of Maryland; Wal r F. Gilford, Director of the Counci ! Natirjnal Defence; Samuel Gom irs, President American Federatip] ! Labor; Bleary John Heintz, Chaii an, ?Jxeciutive Committee World' and?jy School Association; Herbfi . Hoover, United States Food Admii trator; Juilia Lathrop, Chief Chi :en's Burea u, United States Depar ent of Labor; Eva Perry M(>or< resident National Council of Won i; Herbert Putnam, Librarian odt Coi ress; Fraitk E. Vanderlip, Chairma f War Sarvings Committee, Unite tate/i Treasury; Fl-ederick Walcot ood Administration; Mrs. Josiah E1 as ijowles, National President of tb ed? ration of Woman's Clubs. TH:. Philander P. Claxton, Unite ta/tes Commissioner of Educatioi .a' ted that he had carefully invest a/.ed the program of the Junior Re i oss and had decided that it -was th r ganization most practically fitted 4 alist the interest and activity of tl phnni children of America into a sy ematized program of practical patrio sm. .? State Advisory Committees.;;/ State Advisory Committees" to tt funior Red Cross composed of me md women prominent ip education; voric have already been, appointed..! :he five states of the Southern Di-v !ion as follows: Tennessee: S. W. Sherrill, State S jerintendent of Education, chairmai A. Kincannon, School Superinten ;nt of Memphis; W, R.Miller, Scho Superintendent of Knoxville; C. ] Winder, School Superintendent Chattanooga. Georgia: M. L. Brittain, State S serintendent of Education, chairmai 3. H. Bruce, School Superintendent Macon; C. B. Gibson, School Supt ntendent of Savannah; Chancell David C. Barrow of the University Seorgia; Mrs. John "W. Rowlett, Sta President of<he Pajent-Teacher Ass :iation. Flbrida: W. N. sneeis, state ouyt intendent of Education, chairman; E. Knight, School Superintendent Tampa; F. A. Hathaway, School ? perintendent of Jacksonville; Dr. A. Murphree, President of the Ui versity of Florida. North Carolina: J. Y. Joyner/Sta Superintendent of Education, cha man; .0. P. Harding, School. Super tendent of Charlotte; John J. Bla School Superintendent of WilraingtO Dr. Edwin K. Graham, President the University, of North Carolin Mrs. Thomas W. Lingle, Dean Women of the University of' Noi Carolina. South Carolina: J. E. Swearing* State Superintendent of Educatii chairman: A. B. Rhett, School Sup Iriteadent cf Charleston; Frank Eva: School Superintendent of Sparti burg; Dr. W. S. Ctirrell, President the ..University of iJouth Carolina. \ ? 1 _ . . t ' . -r? News for 1 The report of the Statistical Div- fa ision of the United States Food Ad- se ministration for the week ending m January 26th, indicates the price of th milk in South Carolina as averaging n< 16 cents per quart, the general av- si erage throughout all the States be- If ing 12 1-2 cents, while in Utaty, w about 9 1-4 cents seems to be the fi prevailing price. / tl The average prices for milk in y vour neighboring States are as fol- n lows: , > ' A North Carolina,.. ! > .147 Georgia ' . .147 ? Florida / .153-. It is believed by the Hetail Division that milk prices in ^South- Carolina should be materially reduced at on early date. - ti i L. Washington, D. C., Feb. 14.?"If the South neglects this year to pro- ^ vide her own food and feed, she is c likely'to suffer serious privation, and she will put a burden upon the Nation whcih may prolong the war .and even imperil our victory," says Clarence Ousley, * Assistant Secrej tary of Agriculture. ' 1 HT 4-Viaqa OTA X iXHi ci Vf di C ' iIIa u uivav . , I strong words," continues Secretary j Ousley, "but they are none too strong. I am not expressing an ^ alarmist personal opinion. I am seeing through the eyes of 48 agricultural colleges and of county agents . I jn nearly every agricultural coiihity. ? jl ave recently crossed the continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific. I have studied the reports gathered . .by the department's 18,000 repre- ' 1 ] sentatives and as many more employees of the agricultural colleges. I; have recently, crossed the continent the International Institute of Agri- , h culture at Rome which has reports | from all the world. t ''The plain, hard truth is that % with 40 million people withdrawn , frorti productive industries arid enf gaged in the business of destruction, ^ it is not humanly possible ' for prok duction'on the whole to exceed nor. .. , . - i > mal d6inand. The questions whethj er production can equal netessitous demand."*' . ' ''England, France, arid Italy'must h be ' sustained or their populations cannot stand the strain. They have ,L- been on scanty rations for more a-, thai* three years. The chief cause J of Russia's 'collapse was hunger. Sol-t. diers cannot fight when their wives and children are starving. ? \i : ' "Secretary . McAdoo has given I . 11 woonins fhnt transnortation may be 1 :vYaxuing vu?*? jj..? ? lacking in "1918, to Vhaul food and n feed to-states and committees that ^ do not provide for themselves. Many 7[ cattle haVe been sacrificed in the ? drouth regions' of the Northwest and ^ the Southwest during the last few a, montfhs, because railroad cars could *" not'be obtained .as needed. MiliU . i i) , ? ie tary movements mustTiave first con0 sideratrOn, and military movements ie s. will be greater in 1918 than in 1917. t- The prime question ;for the farmer is riot what product will bring the ie "highest price, but what products will insure food'for his family and feed al ' i 1 lDl for his live stock, and the answer i- is: a vegetable garden, a milk 1 fl r\n"\r ' cow, a Drooa sow, a puuiu^ i; ample corn, oats, peanuts, etc., apd then as. much cotton or toljacco, as 3 he can cultivate well. of "It is the highest demand of patriotism?it is the first requirement a;! of living?that in 1918 every State, every county, every neighborhood, or every farmer, be as nearly seft-susol taining as possible. -"For the South to plunge on cotton or tobacco or any other specula5r* tive. crop and to depend upon the 0{ corn belt for bread and meat will !u- be for .the. South to engage in. a A ! ' ; gamble which may c3\ise privation I to i?s people and disaster to the lte; Nation. For any. man now to deir-' " in. i terming, his business operations from ir, ' the standpoint of profit alone, with^ out regard to^the Nation's needs, is a; for him wilfully to profiteer in the blood of his fejlows who are fighting in France >for the preservation of en, I the, .republic.- No man can be excused for not taking his share of ng, /?,hjc responsibility. an-,! |."My whole life has been spent in the South. I know the Southern I a. le Farmerl irmer. He will do his daty/Mfl ;es it. I am speaking \ to eim an in the South to make ktypH icse facts?to consider itfcii^^^H 2ss to make them known-^-ag&^B tail have no doubt of the re*uB : they are not made knoton in H ay to impress the crisis that cfl onts us, there may be hnriggr^B lis bounteous land or nungezygTM onder in Europe, where it iin for all that is worth ROF. W. W. LONG CHAIR- 1 MAN RURAL WORK COM- .B MITTEE S. C. S. S-'-'JfcjjJ Spartanburg, S. C., Feb./ iifl 'rof. W. W. Long, Director 'ofjB ension Division of Clemson as accepted the the chmrtoaflji^B f the Rural Work Committee of louth Carolina Sunday School, AiM iation, according to an ahnotuH lent made here today at the StH leaaquarters. it is lup he State Sunday School Assdcfii^B o have associated with Prof.S&M in. this Committee many of* M eaders throughout the State ire particularly interested in .ttfl ife and in plans for corordinalflj ill the forces for community upfl This committee' will be advisory JB vill recommend plans for briiigH ibout a closer co-operation o? toe^forces that affect the social and religious life of tfhe cfl nunity. As the Sunday Schoiol^^B jociation is interdenominatiozu&fl its nature, and as Sunday problems are common to all nations, it. is believed that thrffl mis rurai wuia' wiuuuvvw be devised for touching moreyffl than ever before the -entire'iifvjH every rural community There are now five. large ccfiaH Lees of the South Carolina SjuB School Association,: accorifijfijp statement from R. D. Webb,G?jM Secretary, and when the"* men? ship of each is complete these'fl mittees will'contain more t&ah^H Christian leaders of all denonH tions in South Carolina. The eM men of these five committees. jM Eev. W. H. E. Pendleton, EjB tive; Dr. H. N. Snyder, Educa&^H Mrs. S. N. Burts, Elementary Bog^s, Finance, and Prof, Long, Rural Work. H price' of bread will h mat nr. ra^H I1V * William Elliott, Food- Admin^B tor for South Carolina has rec^H the following telegram from bert Hoover, National Food "Rumors have reached our ing section . that bakerd pr^B raising bread prices on accbu!^| price wheat flour substitutes. A^H barrel flour produces on theavfl| of two hundred and sev^n^H pound loaves, and these subslfl| will comprise only . one fifth content of victory^ bread, j of bread will be increased leslH| lone tenth of a cent pdr loai^H | each dollars per barrel that tutes cost more than flour.' price of substitutes due to within trade in some section|H i transportation difficulties. We^H nestly believe that freer mov^fl of grain to mills will result'fiflB er prices. It would be most fey tunate for wheat saving if introduction victory bread to be signalized by advance in^H Please inform bakers of youj^H you do not think advance in | due to temporary conditioz^H | this, justified. Matter of within trade should likewiqf)^^| j earnest consideration." BOX PARTY. v I A box party for the benefifc^H i school was given at Shiloh^H ! Hodges on Friday, Feb. 14^H ' large crowd was present anc^^H ? j tsnH tun was enjuyeu. nuuui. i taken in with only a small J of expense which made it nei^H ! clear. One of the lively ' f^H was the voting for the the Prettiest Girl" whicfi ma^H This cake was given to MisflH Anderson, as the prettiest