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American Y. M. C. A. Workers Tea
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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
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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, ?
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i WANTED BY
\A. FOR RUSSIA
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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.
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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
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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
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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- .
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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."
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VITAGRAPH CAS'
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EDUCTION IN TH
3TION PICTURES
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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.
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