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! 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.
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JL NEWS
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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