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Abbeville Press and Bannefl Established 1844. $1.50 the Year. Abbeville, S. C., Tuesday, April 9, 1918. Single Copies, Five Cents. 75th Year. ^ WILSON' AN THEGER . , / : J ? , r 'To Use' Righteous Force in Bringing Germans to Senses PRESIDENT SPEAKS TO BALTIMORE FOLK % <s. " :Shows Futility of Listening to Allj Proposals to End War Before Berlin is Awakened from Dream of World Dominion. Must Respect Law. t ' Baltimore, April 6.?President Wilson at a great Liberty Loan celebration here tonight gave America's answer to the German drive on the Western battle front; to the renewed propaganda for a Germanmade peace, to all proposals to end the war before Germany is awakened from her dream of world dominion. The president's answer war: "Force, force to the utmost, force without stint or limit, the righteous and triumphant force which shall make right the law of the world, and cast every selfish dominion down in the dust." / A few hours before the president spoke he had reviewed a division of citizen soldiers, called only a few 4-U A mivaiiifo IUIUI1 blld HUH i UIC OUlbg vx peace; now transformed into fightJng men to carry the ideal of America to the battlefields of Europe at the moment, a million more of their ki..d all over the land were I the opening of the third Liberty loan, and the orders "for moL bilizing the first of the great army of a second million were going out I / to .the country. World for Fre# Men. | . Those were some of the physical j facts wfcieh backed his words, when, I after reviewing briefly the evidence, I that Germany seeks a -peace that | would give her dominion, the presi\ dent declared. i- "I accept the challenge, I know that you accept it. All the world shall know you accept it. It shall appear in the utter sacrifice and self-forgetfulness with which we shall give all that we love and all that we have to redeem the world and make it fit for free men like! ourselves to live in. This now is | the meaning of what we do.. Let' everything that we say, my fellow! countrymen, everything that wei henceforth plan and accomplish ring, true to this response till the maj-j esty and might of our concerted power shall fill the thought and utiterly defeat the fqj;ce of those who flout and misprize what we honor and hold dear. "Germany has once more said that! force and force alone shall decide j ' | whether justice and j?eace shall reign in the affairs of men; whether j right as America conceives it, or do-; minion as she conceives it, shall determine the destinies of mankind. "There is, therefore, but one re-j sponse possible from us; force,j force to the utmost, force without! stint or limit, the. righteous force' - ? A . ..... , ? I I which shall fhake right the law 01 j the world, and cast every selfish dominion in the dust." Warning anew that a triumph ofi arms for Germany means ruin fori all the ideals America has won andj I lives for the president reiterated ne was willing to discuss at any time a fair, just honest peace, sincerely proposed, "a peace in which the strong and weak shall fare alike." "But the answer," said he, "when I proposed such a peace, came from the German commanders in Russia and I can not mistake the meaning of the answer. * President Wilson's acceptance of Germany's challenge that the issue ! ? v. - i 1SWER TO 1 MAN DRIVE South Carolina's Quota Is $14,000,000; ^ i For Third Liberty Loan Issue? Abbeville's Quota Not Yet An- I nounced?Local Committee The Drive for the Third Liberty Loan is on. Albert Henry, W. H. White, M. B. Reese and E. R. Thom- 1 son form the local committee. M. i B. Syfan will canvas Fort Pickens and the employees of the Southern 1 Railway. /. 1 John White, G. L. Flynn and T. < S. Calhoun will canvass the men of the Seaboard Air Line Railway. ] Don't wait for the committee to 1 call on you. All the Banks in Ab- : beville are selling Bonds?go to yonr bank and purchase your share j 1 this morning. The men named below have been appointed chairmen for their re- 1 spective school districts, if neces-1 sary they will form committees to, assist in the house to house canvass, j A. Selden Kennedy, C. H. Dod- ! son, C. W. Norris, S. J. Wakefield, H. Power, M. B. Mann, R. H. j1 Moseley, S. S. Boles, T. J. Bowman,!1 S. A. Speecf, A. G. Baskin, C.' H. j1 Taylor, Dr. Joseph Hicks, J. A. j Nance, F. W. Wilson. W. E. Lesley, W. W. Wilson, J. R. Pruitt, M. J. Ashley, A. J. Ferguson, L. A. Ramw T. J. Sutherland. R. R. Tol-1 bert, W. R. Ellis, Brown Bowie, J. I R. Lomax, N. S. Cason, S. M. . Beatty, E. R. Miller, J. A1. Hagan, ; W. E. tJoriey, Jas. J. Black, A. L. : Barm ore.. Wilbur Blake is Local Chairman 1 for Calhoup Fafls, A. Selden Kennedy for Due West, R. H. Moseley for Lowndesville, B: *H. Smith for Donalds. Subscription blanks will be mailed j out as soon as received from Wash-11 ington. i W. M. Barnwell, Co. Chairman Third Liberty Loan. WHEAT FARMERS TURN DEAF EARS TO HOOVER Drastic Actionx May Be Taken Unless They Release Supplies of j Grain Held For Higher Prices t Washington, April 1.?The food adminsitration's ' appeal to loyal American farmers to market their t. . I wheat,now while the greatest aim-i culties is being made in feeding the: allies, hajl only slight effect last, week, when mill receipts increased! to 3,250,000 bushels as compared with 3,000,000 bushels of the prev-i ious week. The normal receipts are: 7,600,000 bushels.. Many million of bushels, the ad-j ministration said, still are in storage: on the farms. Exports to the allies j meanwhile continue to decline andj from March 15 to'22 amounted to j only 199,749 tons of cereals, as com; pared with the weekly program of! 270,000 tons. Up to March 22, j1 there was a deficit of 1,101,301 tons;! in shipments of breadstuffs which i can be made ud only with wheat. Decision to requisition all wheat j 1 held by Germans sympathizers seek-! ing to hamper the government has not been changed, administration officials sajd. They indicated, however, that another week or 10 -days;' would be ,given loyal Americans toj sell their grain and that drastic act- j ion then would be considered if the emergency in the wheat supply con- , tinues as serious as at present. between the central powers and her 1 enemies be settled by force brought ' 15,000 persons cheering to their i feet. ] The president, opening the third Liberty loan campaign, carried his ' audience with him in his address. i % . , V V ' N ALLIED COMMANDER B m "ill ABIT" French Official Dis- ^ cusses ^Offensive of ' Germans. MAY GIVE UP AMIENS P City Will Fall fo Boches if Foch q Sees Gain by Permitting Ad- | vance of Enemy. Paris, April 7.?The German attac yesterday in the left bank of ^ the River Oise between Chauny and jc Barisis is taken by some military w critics as indication that the enemy, C( finding himself cramped in the sali ent his offensive has created toward Cj Montdidier and Amiens, is seeking r< more elbow room,as without it he j.( will be unble to deploy his masses in Hindenburg style. The retirement of th?> French to ^ positions prepared in advance causes no uneasiness here. "People should not allow them- ^ s^Jves to* be hypnotized by the of- ^ ficial bulletins," said a high official ai whose advice seems to have been w accepted. "In a battle like this," he q added, "bulletins showing more or ^ less important advances and retreats are simply geographical summaries which convey little meaning except to those who are directing ^ the operations. "People ask: 'Will the Boches get Amiens?" ^ "Mv reDlv is Derhaos they will if ^ General Foch can smash more Ger- " man divisions by letting them in n than by keeping them out. Unbeat- w en armies are more important than 34 are towns and what has happened in this battle does not show on the c map. u "Germany's gains looks like a g fat, jucy pear to the newspaper t] reader, but the kaiser knows how 0 hollow it is a? the core." o All those who approach the French g general staffv share the confidence n of this official. General Foch, it is. now generally y understood, will not be drawn on by t< the Germans, but will hold his re- si serves for the moment chosen by him. c: "Wait a bit, wait a bit." Thuslci the entente allied supreme com- f] mander replies with a characteristic sweep of his arm when asked about L the future. A e; ROBERT C. FENNEL. r( si The State of Sunday contained a j picture of Robert Chester Fennel, j who was recently wounded in | ^ France. The young man is a son I of Rev. and Mrs. H. C. Fennel, of ni Lowndesville, and friends all over ^ the county are glad to know that his injuries arc slight. sYoung Fen-jR nel is a memoer 01 tne nainDow; Division, enlisting from Columbia,) where he held a position as opera- j ti tor for the Seaboard. , j 1;/ * I Q RED CROSS WORK. t( q The work alloted to the Red j | Cross for this month is 360 large j c] paper back pads. Each organiza-jw tion in the county is itsked to assist jw with tMis work. The assistance they| gave during March was a great help j a, I and this" is necessary also. 01dja] newspapers are wanted. If you have j tl a supply on hand please send them a] to the Red Cross rooms. Every little bit helps. p, COMING TO THE REUNION. T I * Camp Hampton, of Columbia, w will send the following veterans to ir the Reunion in May: J. L. Ward- w law, J. C. Abney, J. Fuller Lyon, ^ D. Cardwell and C. T. Goodwyn. A s( sponsor for the camp will be ap- ^ pointed later. V Miss Luah G. Adams of Marlboro ^ will act as sponsor for the 1st Bri- ^ jade. v V J IG DRIVE FOR ' LOAN HAS BEGUN Nationwide Campaign ? for Third Liberty Issue . Starts in Earnest. j * i ERSHING APPEALS TO PEOPLE 1- / i *, eneral Sends Message From France Urging Countrymen to Make Sacrifice* for Men in Trenches. / . Washington, April 7.?Hard work ^ y solicitors for the third Liberty an will begin tomorrow. After eeks of careful organization of ^ >mmittees in every State, city and >unty and the gala opening of the ^ impaign yesterday, workers are ;ady to start oil intense canvass j >r subscriptions ;ind by the end of le week they. expect to^ have a big ^ art of the $3,000,000,000 loan toil. J Reports on yesterday's bond sales ere so general in nature that ofcials at headquarters here tonight id not attempt to calculate v the i ctual amount secured. Indications ere that they ran above $50,000,- 00, but this figure was based enrely on unofficial estimates. To ] lake up the $3,000,000,000 credit ithin the four weeks, it will be i ecessafy to gather in more than ] 100,000,000 a day. By Tuesday or.Wednesday the 1 iberty loan organizations plans to 1 ave dependable figures on subscripons and unusual efforts will be lade to obtain accurate reports, ^ ithout padding or duplicating sub- ' iriptions. Reports fromall parts of r the ountry today indicate that the pop- . lsir enthusiasm for the loan was far ruater than on the first day of eiler of the two previous campaigns, . ?ne cause assigned for this was well J LL'.Ii J rganizeu jpuuiiciuy anu mc am | iven the campaign in advance by I ewspapers. ... } % Secretory McAdoo, after speaking i' esterday in Philadelphia, will sto^t jmorrow on his Southern tour, bopping first at Richmond, Va. From headquarters of the Ameri- ' an expeditionary force in France ' ame today a Liberty loan message rom General Pershing: "Every dollar subscribed to the ' iberty loan is a dollar invested in merican manhood," cabled the gen ral. 'Every dollar subscribed as the ssult of self-denial means p&rtner- S1 lip in the hardships and risks of j ^ ur men in the trenches. An over-1 helming subscription to the third i iberty loan will be a patriotic exression of confidence in our ability J 5 a nation to maintain all that we old dear in civilization." }] ED CROSS LIVING PICTURES.) j The entertainment of Living fie- i ires, given in the Opera House on' ist Thursday night for the benefit: < f the Abbeville Red Cross Chap-| ;r and its auxiliaries was without! ] uestion a grand success. Mrs. H.: 7. Pratt, who was in charge as i bairman, worked faithfully and I ith the able assistance of her co- j t orkers, made it a success. j' The pictures were well gotten up: nd particularly well carried out!1 nd the music was fine. Everybody xrned out to help the good cause ] nd a nice sum was cleared?$336. The little children and the young j, eople were intensely interested in leir parts which made it a success, j he grown up people who helped ere enthusiastic with one object i view, that is to help in every ] ay possible to win the war and! T elp tne boys who are fighting or I { >on will be at the front. VVWVVVWVVVV Wj ! COTTON MARKET V1j Cotton 35 l-2c V Seed $1.06 1-2 Vj VVVV\VVVVVVVVVV|s HE DAY ENDSTEUTC ( Program of Piedmont , U. D. C. Convention I"o Be Held at Opera Houte, Abbeville, S. C., on April 11th at 11 A. M. 1 , Meeting called to order by Dis;rict President, Mrs. F. M. Farr. . j Invocation?by Rev. J. L. Daniel. Welcome from Abbeville Chap;er?Mrs. Lucy Thomson. Welcome from Children's Charier?-Miss Margaret Cox. Address by Mayor? Hon. J. Moore Mars. Response for District?Miss Ber- ^ ;ie Smith. ' , Address by District President? Mrs. F. M. Farr. Reading Minutes, 1917. Roll Call and Chapter Reports. . War Relief Work?-M^rs. R. D. j Wright. ^ Historical Work?Mrs. J. R. Vahdiver. , Address by Mrs. John Cart, State ^ President U. D. C. , The program will be interspersed j oy both vocal and instrumental \ * music. j The public is most cordially incited to these, exercises. t ' List of Delegates and Homes As- | signed. . Newberry: Mrs. R. D. Wright, , Mrs. J. H. West, with Mrs. C. C. , Gambrell. Pickens: Mrs. Tr Q, Jfapldin, ( Miss Hughes, .with Mrs.. C. t>. Brown *T: o: ITT TT TT"_11^ 1 nmciy oia; mrs. nr. n. noimuu, Mrs. Henry Rodgers with Mrs. W. C. Sherard. " Easley: Mrs. Roy Smith, with ] Mrs. J. E. Pressly. Easily: Mrs. WiHiam Anderson, Clemson: Mrs. W. H. Mills, Ne\j< . berry: Mrs. W. H. Carwile, with ( Mrs. W. P. A. Cheatham. ( Clemson: Mrs. Mark Bradley with . Mrs. W. W. Bradley. / ' , Westminster:. Mrs. Anna J. An- . derson, Mrs. D. P. Butler, with Mrs. . R. E. Cox. Gaffney: Mrs. H. M. Brown, Mrs , R. R. Wilkins, with Mrs. J. Howard Moore. Union: Mrs. EL M. Farr, Mrs. C. . EL Peak, with Mrs. T. G. White. Union: Mrs. A. 0. Brannon, ( Greenwood: Mrs. W. T. Jones, with , Mrs. H. H. Hill. 1 ' 1 Union: Mrs. John Cart, Mrs. J. W. Mixson, with Mrs. G. A. Neuffer. . Greenville: Mrs. Marie Gilreathj Richardson, Greer: Mrs. H. E.j, Bates, with Mrs. P. B. Speed. Liberty: Mrs. Bessie G. Smith, i Mrs. W. A. Sheldon, with Mrs. Ray- . Ford Poweii Greenville: Mrs. G. W. Taylor, with Mrs. Wyatt Aien. 1 Due West: Mrs. Edgar Long, Mrs , C. B. Cowan, with Mrs. J. C. King. ^ Clinton: Mrs. E. J. Adair, with j Mrs. George Gambrell. Greenwood: Mrs. E. S. F. Giles,^ with Miss Kate Marshall. , Clinton: Mrs. J. F. Jacobs, Mrs. , ]. R. Copeland, with Mrs. E. R. ( rhomson. . Anderson: Mrs.'J. R. Vandiver, ( vith Mrs. Fred Cason. Greer: Miss Bertie Smith, with VIrs. Fred Cason. ] Newberry: Mrs. Paul Anderson, vith Mrs. E. B. Gary. Anderson: Mrs. Webb, with Miss Vlaggie Brooks. 7 1 Deaths in the army, from April 6, ^ L917, to March 14, from all causes, j vere 1,191, of which 132 were in < iction and 23 losses at sea. Casj- i ilties in the navy to December 31 * nclude 5 officers and 139 men kill- * :d or died from wounds. ( t The signal corps has sent thou- i lands of trained pigeons to France. 1 ? ' SFKHIK I (NIC DRIVE 1 Unable to Make Head- >|| way, Effort of Invaders Dies Down 1 i FOCH BIDING TIME TO HIT HARD BLOW ^J| British Regain. Old Position* la ' Aveluy Wood and Repulse At vM tack Opposite Albert?Wilson'# "Force" Address Finds Re ' '^8 sponsive Echo in Entente Capital* 'v^lj The second phase of the great bat- '.-il? tie along the Somme, which the Gernans began on Thursday last, has sS lied down. It lasted less than three lays and the fighting has resolved / itself into more or less isolated en- - '<|ja ?agements ,in which the French land British allies have more 'than held /MKM their own. The attention of the Germans for :Jjg the present is mainly directed at J|| the lower end of the battle zone, ''M| which apparently they are attempt- -wm ing to enlarge' for the purpose 6f getting elbow room in which to rJH move their vast masses of troops. Meanwhile, General Foch, the commander in chief of the allies, is biding his * time, meeting the Ger- vJH man assaults with powerful resistance and here and there conforming his lines to the necessities of the battle. It is confidently stated ' . ?j ftt P?ri? ^hat Poch will, not be drawn, mto afi? falser ttbtfSSfefit trfffefrf each move is of such vital import- , :.Ji9 artce, but will strike with his re- || serves at the moment selected by BiN Qo?? tp RoumnhU. M There may be some significance in :;|1 the report that the German emper- - [M or after a conference on the westera front Saturday with his chiefs, iiffl von Hindenburg and Ludendorff, intends to proceed to Roumania. At t'j|| the outset of the great German of- / $! fensive, when it was sweeping the y|? allied forces before it, notwith- ^ standing the tenacious resistance, -'4 Emperor William, it was announced officially from Berlin, was in supreme command. That announcement was regarded at the time as' \:/yi evidence that the emperor expected '' ? a complete and decisive victory. f.kl Since then, however, British and ':? French and American reinforcements have come up. The British on Sunday engaged in sharp local fighting at various points and repulsed German counterattacks They also drove off, by artillery fire, two German attacks launched in the neighborhood of Bucuquoy. President Wilson's acceptance of the challenge of the central powers and his declaration of "force, force to the utmost, force without stint or limit, the righteous and triumphant force which shall right the law 5 of the world and cast every selfish do minion down in the dust," has' had Jg a responsive echo from the capitals of the entente powers where the v press gives high praise to the presiient "for putting his action into agreement with his words." rlUN PROPAGANDA IS SQUELCHED II Managan, Nicaragua, April 4.? Pro-German propaganda against the Jnited States has been so marked ' iQjj n this country that President Cham jrro has issued a decree prohibiting such activity. All offenders will )e banished to the island of Lake Nicaragua. The President also orlered that all firms on the Ameri:an black list be denied the use of lational telephone and telegraph ines. , .'-J ?? . I x