Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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f ! NEWS V ' i STATE SKETCHES. Private Bradford Keel, Langley,j and Private Sidney N. King, Beth-, one, are two more South Carolina, r soldiers to figure in the casualty lists. Both are wounded. A third South Carolinian has been made a Rear Admiral. Captain Newton McCully, son of the late Newton A. McCully of Anderson,; has just been promoted and made a J Rear Admiral. He graduated from Annapolis about twenty-five years / ago. The other two South Carolinians to hold that rank are Ad' miral Samuel McGowan and Admiral Edwin R. Stitt. Rock Hill has adopted the practice of putting the lights out for a minute every night as a time for prayer. She is not as blase as Abbeville, however, for her lights go at nine % o'clock instead of ten. One thousand English, French, ~ ? ' ci J_? J Belgians, Russians, owtuea, auu i cpresentaitves of several other nationalities took the oath of allegiance Wednesday morning at Camp Jackson. All the proposed new citizens are at Camp Jackson learning to be soldiers, but before they go to the front they must be legal sons of /Uncle Sam. The occasion was made an impressive one, General French attending and music of an appropriate nature being rendered. fc Mr. M. G. Bowles, of Greenwood, has withdrawn from the race for in fliof frtlintv. In a let IC^IOIOVWIV AAA _ ter to The Index, he states that business obligations compel this action, he having accepted a position of greater responsibilities than the one held when he enterd the race. NATIONAL NARRATIVES. i The Huns are trying to bring German frightfulness to our very shores. Gas from oil discharged on! . v "the water by the German submarine operating off the Middle Atlantic' coast overcame six men in the coast guard station and lighthouse oni Smith's Island, N. C., Saturday ev-: ening. If the gas attack was delib-j erate, as most officials believe, it constituted . a- new and ingeniousu' form of "frightfulness" and, so fari as has.been reported, wafe the first; * nf tVio r.prmnn raiders uuecc cuum vx to harm persons or property on the, , - American shores. Approximately 4,000 -garment workers who have been on strike for three weeks voted Tuesday to return to work tomorrow following an agreement by the war department' at Washington to arbitrate the strike under a proposal submitted by' the manufacturers. Strike officials had previously asked for arbitrations. The manufacturers in agree-' ing to a settlement by referees refused to recognize the garmnt workers' union or in anv way treat with its officials. The strikers seek- a thirty per cent, wage increase, bet-' ter working conditions and a permanent arbitration board. Another move to conserve capital in the United States is under con-; sideration by the capital issues com-' / mittee of the treasury department. Members of the committee favor complete supervision of all bank loans above $100,000. While the proposition is still in formative stages, it was said frankly ,by officals that only through such a process will the government be able to control large expenditures. Millions of dollars worth of material has *- 1 1 "U 1-1 1 i. Deen cuiisuiiieu anu mucu iauur iusl to war essentials as a resul of pri-? ? vate banking loans, officials declar-' ed. To reach these, it is believed careful surveillance of banknig loans by the federal committee will eliminate scores of industrial extensions whirh are not regarded as( absolutely necessary at this time. NATIONAL NARRATIVES. Proprietors of all businesses and : professional men with only a few : exceptions, will pay an'annual fed-'; eral license of $10 and heads of:' wholesale concerns doing a yearly! 1 business of $200,000 or more will^ ] ! NOTES | he required to pay an annual fee of $25, according to a schedule inserted Tuesday in the draft of the $8,000,000,000 revenue bill by the house ways and means committee. Farmers, mechanics, ministers and teachers will be exempted from the $10 occupational tax, as will concerns doing an annual business oi less than $2,000. Hand knitting for the soldiers and sailors is to be checked until the war industries board can survej stocks and ascertain whether there is enough woolen and worsted in the country for winter uniforms and overcoats. The board has directed spinners to dsicontinue manufactur ing woolen and worsted yarns for hand knitting and the shipment of yarns or wool until further notice. Suffragists continue to get themselves in trouble in Washington. Last Mondays thirty-eight banner carriers and speakers were arrested as they assembled before the Lafayette statue in the square opposite th White House. When the women had been released at the police headquarters on their promise to appear Wednesday for trial, 36 of them marched back to the Lafayette sta"1 TTmam tue ana were rettrresteu. upuu uc Ing taken to the police station th? second time, the woman again re fused to give bail for appearance ir answer to the charge of holding i public meeting in a park without ? permit. The police took from then the banners and ribbons which thej carried and after detaining the wo men. about an hour, released then with instructions to appear in po lice court tomorrow. Anna Held, one of the most fam ous actresses of the present day died Monday evening at the Hote Savoy in New York, after an illnes: of several months. She died i martyr to the eternal feminine de sire to be slender and comely. Fo; so long did she fast on tea an< + ???* wA-PuciVrt- 4-/\ oof n nnricViiTK ICIU01115 CV tau nvwiiwii*w{ food lest it molest her beauty, tha she was attacked and succumbed t< a rare malady known as myeloma, 1 disintegration of the spinal mar row. Her remains will be carriec back to her native Paris at the conclusion of the war. INTERNATIONAL IDEATIONS. The Russian situation is beginning to look much brighter for the allies. Premier Lenine and Leon Trotzkv, the men who have been in power sicne t?e overthrow of the Kerensky cabinet last November and the ones who negotiated the BrestLitovsk peace, have fled to Kronstadt, the naval base near Petrograd and a place from which they can easily flee into Germany. The weakness of the Bolshevik government can al?o be inferred from the fact that Dr. Helferich, the German ambassador to Russia, has informed the Soviet government that he will move the embassy from Moscow to i SKov, oecause ne lears tor tne personal safety of his staff. Referring to the shifting of the Grman diplomatic base at Russia the Vossische Zeitung of Berlin says: "The removal of the German embassy from Moscow to Pskov sheds a lurid light on the seriousness of the political situation on our eastren front. Ambassador Helferich left before the embassy staff because he feard foi his life." The Austrians, as well as the Germans, are now beginning to realize how formidable is the AmericanBritish, French offensive. Franklin D. Roosevelt is now in Italy. The Assistant Secretary of the United States Navy, in speaking at a luncheon given in his honor at Kome Friday evening by Admiral Del Bono minister of the navy, gave assurances that additional American troops would be sent to Italy. One of the purposes of his visit to seek means of preventing enemy submarines from leaving the Adriatic, while it was also desired to find ways for keeping the Auustrian fleet from operating against the [talians. Four hundred and forty-two men | are missing as a result of the torj pedoing of the French steamer, i Djemnah in the Mediterraneon the < I ! night of July 14-15, while bound j from Bizerta to Alexandria with .! troops on board, according to ar official announcement Tuesday nighl Four days later the French steamei Australian also was torpedoed ir the Mediterranean, I s Neutral press reports that Vienm citizens paid as high as 40 crown: ijfor leaflets dropped by Italian avi | ators in their recent flight over th( ! Austrian capital in giant Capron I planes are causuing great satisfac tion in Rome. An official dispatct says the cabinet has congratulatec the air service on the feat. 1 FARMERS' MEETING | f 1 There will be a farmers' meeting 1 in the court house Monday, Aug. 19 beginning at 10 o'clock. Dr. W. W Long, director of Extension Work ir South Carolina will be present. Dr Long is an influential speaker anc +Wco whn tipnr him will be well nleas ed. Tfie purpose of the meeting is two> fold. First, Dr. Long will take up tht wheat question and plans will be made to hold about 15 meetings in the coun> ty, urging the farmers to sow wheal v his fall. The war is not yet won anc we must not slacken our efforts tc win this war until Germany is de feat-ed (and she must admit it befor< we believe she is defeated) and peac< is signed. Everybody should sov wheat this fall, and it is my desir< to hold an extensive wheat campaigi j in the county in the first week in Sep j tember, and this meeting will be thi 1 beginning of the campaign. 1 Also, we are organizing a Farmers r Co-operative Marketing Associatioi at Greenwood for Abbeville and Mc 1 Cormick counties. The Associatioi " will -be established at a capital o $5,000, shares will be sold to the far ! mers at $25 each. McCormick ha I "ibeen allotted $1,500 worth of share I and Abbeville county will take $l,00i 1 worth. This is one of the most need; 5 steps that should be taken up by th 1| farmers?we need a market for ou "i surplus products. A similar organi r zation in Orangeburg county ha * been in operation since January am ? has sold over $40,000 worth of farn ^ products for the farmers and wil do at least $100,000 worth of busines I ii.?.. mis year. "J Mr. J. S. Stark was elected tempor ' ary 'director for Abbeville countj " at this meeting held in Greenwood 01 August 8. | It is necessary that as many farm .ers come to this meeting as possibly can on Monday, Aug. 19, at 10 o' J clock. 'I (Signed) J. S. Stark, W. A. Rowell. DOMJNICK'S RECORD GIVEN BY AIKEN Shows by Congressional Record Where Congressman From This District Has Voted Against Administration. (Political Advertisement.) The address of Hon. Wyaft Aiken candidate for coneres, at the senatorial campaign meeting in Green! wood yesterday /was delivered toe 1 late for an extended acount in yes torday's issue ofj the Journal. Mr ; Aiken spoke abojut 15 minutes anc confined his remarks entirely to th< ' public rccord of (Congressman Domi nick. i lie showed by the Congressiona : Record that Mij, Dominick opposec I the following measures favored bj - the administration: ! Against the .'resolution declaring ' that a state ofi war exists betweer tnis country and! Germany. Against the di'aft act. ! Against national prohibition. : Against the espionage, or spy act AgainsS the iact non-exempting i divinity siuueiiGb iiuin : military service# ( Against the ; soldier (volunteer) vote to give the ;States credit for volunteers. Against he cehsor bill. | Against the President's determination NOT to send Roosevelt to , France. Against the day-light saving bill. Against the Crompton resolution of i inquiry as to the manufacture of in I toxicating liquors. Against his party on the vote to purge from the Record the speech of Hoflin, of Alabama, in which he blistered Mason and Britton, Repub i licans, of Illinois* who were against a the administration. ta , Mr. Aiken said that Mr. Dominick Sn s did not vote on the resolution mak- as [ ing Guam and the Hawaian Islands ci] i dry and that he was also against the sp i administration on the matter of tax- se t ing the third isue of bonds. of : On the last proposition Mr. Aiken is i spoke as follows: ! Mr. Dominick has. claimed credit nc for having Congress reverse itself on th the measure proposing to exempt th 1 banks from state taxes to the extent ^ 5 of the investment of their capital 0f stock' in liberty bonds. ? so | I am perfectly willing to concede rjj 1 him all credit due, but it should be borne in mind t^iat Congress did not ^ 1 reverse itself on tms issue until aft- ^ * er that Democratic House Leader, ar Mr# Kitchin, had reversed himself. ca Now, as to the issue itself a few gc side lights will snow that Mr. Domi- ge nick's attitude on this, as on every ra ' other question Vouching the vigorous | prosecution of tfhe war, was hostile to the administration. ^ i I need not /remind you with what . I . , , . *. m patriotism the I people of this country have responded to the first, second i r 3 and third Liberty Loans. Nor need I y< } remind you tiat in every instance a ^ | major portion of these bonds have ^ been floated iirectly or indirectly through the Ijanks. If an individual j subscribed, ih most cases he paid down ten or twenty per cent., and the as banks carried ithe balance. It is an m ^ ,incontrovertab|e fact that not one j _ [ of these loans qould have been floated j in but for the patriotic aid of the banks and with all the support "they could a j possibly give, the bonds time and C? again have droi ped below par. If the ai arder of the banks is chilled then to e that extent is the floating of the w , bonds chilled? Whatever else may be m said of bankers, by those who would a* i -1 make capital oit of abusing them, nobody will sayl of them as a class m ^ that they art rools. Then nobody 'c could honestly sky that they would ft invest their capiual in bonds in a s V market that is glutted, at a low fixed it ? rate purely as an\ investment On d< D \ the contrary everj* dollar they in- tl y vest in bonds is at\a sacrifice, and th P ? I l_n "L J.1 V J ill i-U nuuiy nave mey maqe ana win uiey r \ continue to make the sacrifice. There t? is not the slightest dinger that they oJ will retain ^he investment longer pi ; than a return to healtfty and normal j a 11 conditions will enable them to dis-jo] 1 V J pose of the bonds without injury toitc s I the government. \ | In Government bonds wene issued be-1 H fore this war, and only\in one in-.C stance, in thiiS state, a trust company! h; 1 doing an inactive business, was there, w I IEighty=Secoi Loans and I Scholarships For | Worthy j Applicants i ERSKI DUE WEST * !V==== large investment of banking capi- tl I. This case was carried to the s ipreme Court by Mr. Dominick, as t: sistant attorney general, the prin- v pies of which he embodied in his (ii eech against the amendment (or'_ ction) proposing to exempt so much a bank's capital from taxation as invested in Liberty Bonds. The United States government does >t tax State bonds. It does not tax e salaries of State officers even of e smallest sub-division. Then in e name of humanity; in the name^ ' ' world freedom; in justice to our ns and to our brothers who are barng -the way of the Hun whose slimy ail bears in its wake the blood of n e old and the rape and the wanton ? istruction of the ounug, why should ly one who calls himself an Ameri-' m citizen undertake to block this1 >vernment in its efforts to save it-j If from vassalage and the human ice from a damnable tyranny that ill itself cannot equpl. What are a few year's taxes on aj iw thousand dollars jn a few banks' South Carolina, or the Nation, as] >mpared with the! importance of; lising the sinews of war to suportj >ur boy and mine in! battling against | ie lust and fury of .the most poweril and brutal nation that ever cursl this earth? \ Mr. McAdoo plainly stated that he sked for the passage of this amendent as some little (acknowledgement : the patriotic services of the banks floating the several liberty loans. . ~ ~ * i. i r nu in uits iaci ui mi* appeal lruiii man whose unselfish devotion to the | luse of his country, whose wisdom id herculean undertakings in behalf 1 t bleeding humanfty have been the onder of the world, your Congressan spoke against and cast his vote jainst the amendment. The little wooden crosses that! iark the resting places of our boys ver yonder' cry to heaven for shame lat one who asujnes to represent lis nation should attempt to debase 1 s principles as to cavil over a few! allars of taxes foj the States when; le nation's very existence hangs in I le balance. Surelv the states are not less in-! < srested than the nation in the cause F world freedom, and to try to make Dlitical capital ou^ of the saving of; pittance of taxes; to the States, in pposition-to the effects of the nation > stem the tide of; blood that is deiging the world, ife unworthy of a \ epresentative of tjie United States' ongress. - Then let the gentlemen | ave credit for it if his conscience 1 ill justify it. But God forbid that ^ \ i ' 1 nd Year Begins Sep! \Military Instructs \ Government. , Colleges in Scien^ guages, Hist* Philosophy a Medici! Coui A College tcrDev well as |nt^ll r \ ~ ^ Total Expenses $201.5(1, ii Room,! Elect j Heat, Tuitioi Board at Act For Injormc NE COL i he people who are disinterestedly upporting the President^ and the naion should ever take suph a sordid1 iew of the responsibility that is rest- < ig upon us and our duty to meet it. BE PRETTY! TURN GRAY IB DM rry Grandmother's Old Favorite Recipe of Sage and Sulphur. Almost everyone knows that Sage tea and Sulphur, properly compoundid, brings back the natural color and ustre to the hair when faded, streaked >r gray. Years ago the only way to ret this mixture was to make It at lome, whteh Is mussy and troublelome. Nowadays, by asking at any Irug store fo\ "Wyeth's Sage and Sul>hur Compound," you will get a large >ottle of this famous old recipe, lig >rovea oy xne aaanion 01 umer ingredients, at a small cost. f \ Don't stay grayi Try It! No one :an possibly tell ihat you darkened 'our hair, as it dc^a It so naturally md evenly. You dampen a sponge or oft brush with It \ and draw thifl hrough your hair, taking one small itrand at a time; by morning the gray ial? disappears, and after another ap)llcatlon or two, your1 hair becomes >eautlfully dark, glossy a,nd attractive. Wyeth's Sage and 8t)lphur Com- >ound Is a delightful toilet requisite or those who desire dark hair and a routhful appearance. It is not" inended for the cure, mitigation or pre euuuu UL uiocooc. na EAT LESS MEAT I IT BACK HURTS I Take a glass of Salts to flash Kidneys H if Bladder bothers yon?Drink MB lots of water. H| Eating meat regularly eventually pro* IMf duces kidney troub e in some form or other, says a well-l nown authority, be* Hfl cause the uric acid in meat excites the kidneys, they ^becor ie overworked; get ERj sluggish; clog up ail cause all sorts of SBj distress, particularly!, backache and mis- Wgmk ery in the kidney regibn; rheumatic twineea. severe headaches! acid stomach, con stipation, torpid ' liver, sleeplessness, bladder and urinary irritation. 9^B The moment your rack hurts or kid- f^Hj neys aren't acting right, or if bladder HB bothers you, get about four ounces of ftESM Jad Salts from any!good pharmacy; take a tablespoonful in a glass of water HH before breakfast for a few days and your lajH kidneys will then act fine. This famous MM salts is made from the\ acid of grapes H9| and lemon juice, combined, with lithia, |H|H and has been used for generations to flush clogged kidneys and stimulate them to normal activity; also to Neutralize the HH acids in the urine so it no longer irritates, thus ending bladder disorders. HHM Jad Salts cannot injure\ anyone; makes a delightful effervescent lithia- WJIafl water drink which millions of men and N^HB women take now and then to keep the' UUJ kidneys and urinary organs clean, thus jjj^H avoiding serious kidney disease. ' B^Ojj MMH MP g m ?C?ftWMMBK temper 18 |bH| on/tinder the U. S, _ MBB ; nn e, Literature, Lan- jH^H Dry, Mathematics, ^bH^H nd Pedagpgy. Pre- HflH imse Given. JHInB elop Character as JU9ufi| ect. mm Last Year Were HH lclUding Board, HH ric Steam 1 3UHm i, an d\Ail Fees. JH ual Cost. \ gfiBgH ilion Address\ iHH SO. CAR.