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ABLE MEN ARi Y. M. C fflnjaHlMBiiiffi \ .'.' . y. sflnnPM H&g American Y. M. C. A. Workers Tea 1 With the Government at Waa Ihilanthropic support to Russia, t M. C. A. It actively recruiting: t lreadv manning huts over there, jrs and regular Y. M. C. A. secret relfare work In communities ar< A further consideration of a d irtually as a "go-ahead" order to ti II uncertainties of the past few m Lussia. These men have been k< ulld up the morale of the citizen ry. The secretaries today are in i In the dark days of Russia t ver that country to serve the peoi ivalid prisoners were taken care < 11 the men were broken in healtl rith curses against Germany. But ronder that their, countrymen coi nemy. "The T. M. C. A. leaders in R ir of the War Personnel Board c far Work Council, "have never d Lossian people. Despite all difflcu Ell IB, U1V X. ill. U A. lias I tJLL ng for a better day. The d Keen new secretaries, with it to the Russian life of the f Dutheastern Departnyent ! ss men, but the call conies md Community work. All help hereelft American Worn j Delayed Cable from Chate: ace.)?Mrs. Clara Simmons, thest front, placidly runs ci Makes hot chocolate and d Military policeman killed b A fArnQD tn VIa /^iirAafrvlr D Iv* iU ? 1UU4T VO wil| i AT CAMP JACKSON. W. Carroll, a Private, and Hoi Spends His Time?His Goat Got Away. . in W. Carrol, a private a Jackson, hsa written a ver itening letter regarding hi 5 a soldier to Mr. D. A. Roger )beville. In writing, he ha sded in coating a hard lif humor.' Yet the rough spot through. The letter should in every reader of The Prea iflnnpr. Camp Jackson, July 9, 191? ^^^vriend, jj^Hftough I am in the army, gHt forgotten you, I have jus OBoo busy to write, and as tc been my first easy day I ar to catch up with my corres BBce. RH is surely some life! Unci ^^Basn't any 16th hour law her< HI served on every kind of wor ^^^Biey have here. First ^thin ^^^k-e lined up and informed tha HHe quarantined for 14 day: I owed off Company Street: right there is where my goa ay, and I haven't found it ye re were marched to the "J A. and innoculated for tj md small pox. Gee! but ack boy. However,' they kep it. Served one day on th iile, three days on kitche and, oh, boy, that is th hate! It was 16 hours pe hibbing pots and pans an j hot Irish Potatoes. I don ant to see another potato |iy I was carried out to HHH>out 5 miles from our con a sergeant handed me ^^HHtch-fork and said, get busy' busy and unloaded m^tnur flBMH and then had to walk bac ^^^^Bain, and to-day I have bee B^HB stumps. ^^^^ught I was coming here t UkBB be a solider but it lool ^^BHnighty slow process, the H^^H-e. Of course, some of th fl Bre lucky and were tram BBHto a regular company, ? -v. i WANTED BY \A. FOR RUSSIA ra - H. i jv wjBUk j^aMBBtt B BHkH^K] ch Returned Russian Soldiers Useful rrades hlngton prepared to lend economic and .he National War Work Council of th? jo reinforce the Red Triangle workers Agricultural experts, physical direcaries as well as other men familiar with 3 being sought lefinite policy toward Russia has served he association. The Y. M. C. A., through onths, has kept 100 of Its secretaries in ept busy day and night in an effort to s and soldiers of the unfortunate counall parts of Russia. he American secretaries "stood by" all >le in every way possible. Thousands of >t as they returned from Germany. Most t. They died, almost without exception, greater even than their hatred was their old have made "peace" with such an ufsia," said Dr. W. W. Alexander, direcif the Southeastern Department, National oubted the essential soundness of the lties and inevitable losses and discourlalned In Russia, seeking to serve and ay is now evidently coming." ability to contribute some constructive uture are being searched for throughout Some agriculturists are wanted, some stronger for men skilled in rural Y. M. are to go with the purpose of helping lan Furthest Front au Thierry Front With American Force# Grafron, Mass., woman Y. M. C. A. wortoante en while shells drop in adjoining listritmtes cookies to men going into ao y shell near her hut Husband with T. uasia. they missed all the fun I have just - told you about. Still, I like it better than I thought I would, for we have our army clothes now, ana they are not so much trouble to keep clean. Although my shoes are too large and my shirts too small I manage to get around pretty lively ^ when an officer hollers, for in this 3 Man's Army you get cussed if you s -do and cussed if you don't. So 3 you see no matter what happens we e are due so many cussings out per s day, and all that for $1.00 per day. l" I took out $10,000 insurance s payable to Lettye and made her an allottment of $15 per mont'i, and ^ " . i i% h er 5. the Uovernment win give ner $10. So she will get $30 per month, that I is, if I can keep out of the Guard it House. That's the only place I >- haven't been yet, but wouldn't be n surprised if I was sent any old time. 1- for I came very near sticking a knife in a blooming Dago tc-day at e dinner. He tried to get gay, but when he saw me get my sticker k he apologized. Some of these Waps g and Bohunks try to be hard guys, it and as I never did like to be kicked 5, about, I am likely to get into trou3. ble sooner or later. Sure hope they it I transfer me soon. it' Well, Rogers, old scout, write T. when you have time and I will try r- and answer your letters, for I en1 joy hearing from my friends and it will try and be in Abbeville about e the 20th to get my check. I am gon ing to Columbia tomorrow. Sure e wish you were here, for I have been :r cooped up so long I feel like cut '' - lii.il ^ T Irn/vrir nre (J I'lng' Up ^ IlttlCj ClLLU. lf IVUVtr fi w 't could have a swell time. j. Give my regards to Mrs. Rogers a and all the boys, also send me i- Wade's adress, if you know it. a With best wishes, \ Your friend, e John W. Carroll. k ?. n OLD FASHION GATLING GUN. o (Frank E. Carpenter in the State.) :s The first machine gun of practical y ' value appeared about the time of oui te civil war. Among these was the Gats' ling gun. invened by Dr. Richard 10 Jordan Gatling of Indianapolis. His gun consisted of ten or more parallel barrels with a grooved carrier and lock cylinder, the whole being secured upon a main shaft. As the gun revolved he cartridges dropped ( into the grooves of the carrier and were pressed home ready for the discharge. Many improvements were made on the Gatling, and it was con sidered a wonder of efficiency. It ' was used in our Jrmy and was tested out by the Germans. It had a long life, being fired side by side with the latest automatic machine guns in the Spanish-American war. It was used by the British in the Egyptian and Sudanese cmpaigns and also in the Boer war and in the war with the Zulus. Some of the later Gatlirigs could be made to fire almost 1,000 shots a minute. I knew Dr. Gatling during the latter part of his life, when I had several interviews with him about his wi o ?it a min tto nnnn +/-vltyid via iimviini^ guu* ii? vnvv buxu i*iv iiv believed his gun would be a benefit to humanity, in that it would make war so terrible that the nations would not dare to fight. He said also that for every man killed in battle five. died of disease and that he felt that if he could invent a gun that would do the work of 100 men the other 99 could remain at home and be saved for the country. Dr. Gatling got his first large order for guns during the War Between the Sections. It came from Gen. 'Benjamin F. Butler, who bought 13 of him at $1,000 apiece, and used them during his James River campaign. That was about 18G3. Later Dr. Gatling went to Europe, where he met'Napoleon III, who wanted to lay in some of the guns to use against the Germans, with whom he expected to have war That was during the Paris exposition of 1867. Dr. Gatling told me that one of his guns was smuggled out of the expositon building at midnight and carried to the testing - J grounds near Versailles. It was there fired in the presence of the emperor and then secretly returned. During that same visit Dr. Gatling met the Austrian emperor and later took the guns to Vienna to show them. He met also the old kaiser of Germany and got several orders for guns for the German army. He was received by the czar, who bought 300 of his guns, made at the Colt factory in Hartford. He also sold some guns to the Germans at Munich and was paid for them in silver. The bags were so heavy that they almost broke down his carriage on the way to the bank. GAFFNEY CITIZEN JAILED FOR TREASON Dr. Hickson, Minister and Osteopath Guilty of Unpatriotic Utterances. (Gaffney Ledger, July 20.) r or sume monins rumors nave been flying thick * and fast in regard to certain disloyal utterances whcih were attributed to Dr. F. C. Hickson of this place as to his attitude toward President Wilson, whom he severely criticized for involving the United States in the war with Germany. In addiioi} to being the pastor of one or more Baptist churches in this county, Dr. Hickson is an Osteopath having offices over the Cherokee Drug Company's store. He is recognized as being a man of much more than average ability, but the people of Gaffneyand Cherokee county cannot understand his attitude in regard to the war, as the testimony taken at the hearing establishes the fact that he is a German sympathizer. At the close of the testimony in the case? which was worked up by Secret Service Government Agent Henry E. Thomas, of Charlotte, N C. Col. Butler announced that he would PERA Qp d by LOIS MERE tid an ALL-STAR RVELOUS PICTU I ?1 *\ n A 1 WUKLD-r A IE GREATEST PI HISTORY OF M( hold Dr. Hickson for court in the 9 sum of two thousand dollars, whereupon the defendant announced that he would go to jail, as he would ^ not ask any of his friends to go on his bond. He further stated that n the testimony which was given ^ against him by the witnesses for the j. Government was false, and was the e result of a political conspiracy, and jr that he had never said that the President should be assassinated. u The following is one testimony ^ which was taken at the preliminary b examination: g J. G. Pridmore being sworn, said: a "I live here in Gaffney, S. C. ]j Know the defendant. Have been knowing him for about twenty-five Q years. In August of last year (1917 si in front of Goudelock & Swofford's c< store in Gaffney, the defendant was h in conversation with K. O. Huskey n when I walked up. I joined in the o conversation. We were discussing ri . .. ... i the war and the liovernment, and ml substance Dr. Hickson said that it was wrong for this country to be at war and that Woodrow Wilson was g nothing short of an infernal scoundrel and that the whole propaganda g1 was a money-making machine and ' he bet that Woodrow Wilson was getting his drag; and that by de- ^ claring this country in a state of ^ war and by bringing the people of ^ this country into such a bloody con- ^ flict he (Woodrow Wilson) should ^ be assassinated. Things got pretty g. blue and Dr. Hickson walked on. I mean by "biue", both of us got mad I believe in substance that is about what was said. I might add that Dr. ^ Hickson said it was a rich man's s war and that the steel men and peo- . 11 pie in pursuit of like nature were g reaping the benefits/' Cross examination by Dr. Hickson: "Yes, you said the President p should be assassinated, and that hail- t r 1 ed the news of his assassination. , (Signed) "J. G. Pridmore." HOUSE 'atd Night, Frida; ^PFCIAL MU5 ADMISSION: MATINEE? Children Adults NIGHT? Orchestra Balcony Reserved seat sale begins August 1st. G i avoid the rush. m ( Himself8) ,DITH, JAMES MO VITAGRAPH CAS' RIZATION OF EM MOUS BOOK EDUCTION IN TH 3TION PICTURES < 0,000 MEN EACH WEEK ARE GOING OVERSEAS Washington, July 19.?There are ivelve divisions of American troops -approximately 324,000 fighting !en?at different points along the attle front in France. During the ist three or four days parts of ight divisions have been engaged i the great battle now in progress. The New England division, made p of seasoned guardsmen from the few England States, and the Rainow Division, in which some forty tates and the District of Columbia re represented, have been completej Engaged. This was the information which feneral Peyton C. March, chief of baff of the army, gave to the House , ammittee on military affairs today, [e declared the situation-was "emiently satisfactory," 'although the fficial dispatches which hawe been . eceived are very fragmentary. American Guns Used. For the first time in the war Amrican-manufactured ? 7 5-millimeter uns are being utilized by the Amrican troops. The Americans, he tated. have been firine on an av?r ge of 23,000 shells daily. To date there has been furnished 3 the army 733 Dehavil and 4's airlanes, of which 425 already have een shipped to Europe. There also ave been delivered to the army 537 ,ibrty motors, which have been hipped abroad. The movement of troops contines overseas at the rate of 90,000 weekly. The transport system has een speeded up, the general said, o that the .transports now are makig an average of ya round trip evry thirty days. 666 cures Malaria, Chilli and :ever, or Bilious Fever, by killing he parasite causing the fever. 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