The Abbeville press and banner. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, October 18, 1918, Page TWO, Image 2
ESTABLISHED 1844
The Press and Banner
ABBEVILLE, S. C. q
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Wm. P. GREENE, Editor. tl
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The Press and Banner Co. "
Published Every Tuesday and Friday
Telephone No. 10. ^
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Entered as second-class mail mat- v
ter at post office in Abbeville, S. C. n
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T?Mn? of Suhacriotion:
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One year $1.50 v
Six months .75 ^
Three months .50 ^
Payable invariably in advance.
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1918 p
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THE LIBERTY LOAN DRIVE.
New life has been given the Liber- 0
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ty Loan I>rive in Abbeville, and the
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chances that we will go over the top
are very much better than before
Wednesday. On Tuesday afternoon I v
Mr. Lander of the Calhoun Mills,0
telephoned Chairman Barnwell thatj
he had read The Press and Banner! s
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and, in order to stimulate interest in
the movement in this county, his mill ,
desired to increase its subscription ^ ^
from twenty-five to fifty thousand
dollars. *
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Wednesday morning Messrs. J. L. ^
McMillan, J. S. Stark and S. H. Ros-jv
enberg began a new canvass of the
business section of the city. Before j(
doing so each made a new subscript c
tion for himself.
Mr. Sol. H. Rosenberg, on behalf j q
of his corporation, The Rosenberg, ^
Mercantile Company, subscribed for!f
$11,000, and in order to make it ?
tion surrounding us to t^ke 60% of c<
the amount allotted to the county, j tl
or $360,000. We should make the si
amount $400,000, which will mean p
that the remainder of the county! d
must raise at least $200,000. With,
the subscription of the Calhoun Mills r<
to assist them, they should be able ri
to do this without any great effort, a
It is expected that more than this B
amount will be taken by them. ' tl
The remaining $150,000 which we is
are to raise will not be raised as tl
easily as the $250,000 now in sight,! e
but it will be forth-coming if the j tl
work proceeds. There is no way to j
get it except to thoroughly organize; ti
the working forces, divide the whole1 n
force into squads, and to send one'u
squad into a certain territory and tl
other squads into other sections, so j tl
that the whole community may be 11
thoroughly combed, and every man j n
brought face to face with the im-: ti
perative duty of assisting the coun-js;
try in the most momentous period of n
the world's history. c
Abbeville expects every man to do tl
his duty. s!
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even numbers he took $1,000 in his^
own name, although he might have j v
rested on the subscription of his j
business. Mr. and Mrs. Philip j ^
Rosenberg, subscribed for $6,000,! j,
and other members of the family: s
made subscriptions, bringing the to- j v
tal to more than $20,000, which was t
the amount The Press and Banner. ^
believed they would take. The Ros- J t
enbergs and Visanskas have never r
failed Abbeville when the city need-'0
ed assistance.
Uncle Jim sat down and wrote out (
his card for $10,000 and asked no-'j
body any questions. Mr. McMillan im-; a
mediately subscribed for $5,000, n
while Mess. W. M. Barnwell and J. 0
Foster Barnwell, each, took a like a
amount. Mr. A. M. Smith did theJ t
right thing when he put his signature j 2
to a card for $10,000 showing the! a
committee that his heart is in the J
right place. J. Allen Smith, Jr., andjp
E. R. Thomson each, asked for $5,-|0
000 as did J. R. Gienn, W. H. White !g
and others. At the noon hour the a
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increased subscriptions amounted to j 0
over $115,000. Several members of | i>
the five thousand dollar class had|
not been seen, and other large sub-'j
acriptions are expected. The Abbe-j
ville Cotton Mill has indicated its]
purpose to take $25,000, but v has[
been asked by the committee to|w
make the subscription $50,000. j tl
Should it decide to do so the total i tl
subscriptions in Abbeville and vicin-' c
ity will amount to something like c<
$250,000.
That all sounds mighty well. But|b
it will not do to rest on what has r<
been done. If the county is to go d
over the top, it will be necessary ;L
for this city and the immediate sec-;tl
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A COMMITTEE OF SAFETY.
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While the work of raising our
uota o.f the liberty Loan is going
n we must not lose sight of the fact
lat people are falling sick from the
pidemic in our midst, and that it is
levitable that whole families will be
tricken, that people will sicken and
ie without the care and comfort
tiey should have, unless the people
f the city are prepared to keep up
rith every home where the disease
lakes its appearance, and are preared
to succor those who need help.
Already the d^ath toll has comlenced.
It has /come into a home
rhere the wife lay sick, as did all
he children, e::cept one. The other
indred of this family were already
tricken with a great grief, and some
hemselves were suffering from the
revailing malady. Other homes
ave been visited and every ableodied
person in the home has been
? _ t_ ?1 iiL ? A
orced to taKe to a sick Dea. wiui iw
ne to even measure out the- mecHines
which are necessary to fight
he plague.
It will not do for those who are
rell and strong to be unmindful of
thers. It will not do for those who
re stricken to think only of themelves
and their hard lot. The mesenger
of death must be kept out,
l the efforts of this community may
eep him out; but if he must enter
h.e homes of our people, let us pr^y
hat as he enters to call the father
e may not find the mother and chilren
stricken too, without care, and
rith only thte pallid faces of fifteen
ear old girls, with signs of sleep2ss
nights, and hours of patient
are, to meet him.
We need very much just now a
!ommittee of Safety which will make
' its business in Icppti in tourh with
he doctors, and with the homes
/here there is sickness, in order
hat help may be sent to those places
/here it is needed.
It is work which only women may
;o rightly. Some of those who have
?een busy the last few days in asisting
with the Liberty Loan drive
irould be glad, we believe, to allow
he men to complete this work, and
o take up the work of caring for
heir neighbors and friends who are
leeding the care and the touch which
mly a woman's hands will bring.
Mrs. T. Gordon White, Mrs. M. T.
Coleman, Mrs. J. L. McMillan, Mrs.
'. C. Ellis, and numbers of others
,re capable of serving on a committee
such as we have in mind and
>f doing a great work for the sick
nd suffering in this community. If
he members of the City Council will
,sk them, they will take up the work
nd do it as it should be done.
Man's inhumanitv to man has no
lace in Abbeville today. The men
f the community will give these
:ood women all the financial assistnce
they need if they will only take
ver this phase of the change which
3 upon all of us.
A MATTER OF CREDIT.
It is not surprising that people
rho have money to loan, and who are
fiemselves patriotic, begin to doubt
he financial standing and moral seurity
of people who do not help the
ountry in its time of need.
The Board of Trustees of the Abeville
School District has adopted as
esolution to invest five thousand!
ollars in the bonds of the Fourth
iberty Loan, and in order to raise
le money, if necessary, it is to be
oliected from those people owing
le sinking fund who have failed to
ibscrioe to this loan, unless these
eople can satisfy the agents of the
ist.rict that they are unable to do so.
Men who are accustomed io bor*
jw money from the banks for va-j
ious purposes, and who have money,
nd who refuse to take Liberty
londs need not be surprised when
ley apply hereafter if the inquiry
i made as to the number of bonds
ley own, nor need they be surpris-j
d if they are turned down when|
ley have refused to subscribe.
Some people do not believe that a|
ix dodger is honest, because taxes
lust run the government under
'hich we live, and every man owes
tie duty to do his share if it is only
be widow's mite that he contributes,
"he call of the government for
loney from the people of this counry
is as binding a charge, morally
peaking, as the call for taxes. No
lan who refuses to do his part can
laim to be as good a moral risk as
he man who does his. A man who
hirks a plain duty has not the stand
ing of one who performs his duty.
Therefore, we say that we shall
not be surprised as time goes on if
the patriots of this country are first
served by the banking institutions
and every other institution in this
country. The people have their eyes
on the slackers.
AUTOCRACY MUST GO
DECLARES WILSON
(Continued from Page One.)
provide absolutely satisfactory safeguard
and guarantees of the maintenance
of the present military supremacy
of the armies of the United
States and the allies in the field.
"He feels confident that he can
safely assume that this will also be
the judgment and decision of the allies'
governments.
"The president feels that it is also
j his duty to add that neither the govj
ernment of the United States nor,
I he is quite sure the governments with
i which the government of the United
i .... , i
I States is associated as a belligerent,
j will consent to consider an armistice
so long as the armed forces of Ger!
many continue the illegal and inhut
mane practices which they still persist
in.
"At the very time that the German
government approaches the government
of the United States with
proposals of pei.ce its submarines are
engaged in sinking passenger ships
at sea and not the phips alone, but
| tjie very boats in which their passengers
and crews seek to make their
way to safety, and in their present
enforced withdrawal from Flanders
and France the German armies are
pursuing a course of wanton destruc
ticyi which has always been regarded
as in direct violation of the rules
and practices of civilized warfare.
Cities and villages, if not destroyed,
are being stripped of all they contain,
not only, but often of their very
inhabitants. *
"The natiqns associated against
Germany can not be expected tc
agree to a cessation of war while
acts of inhumanity, spoliation anc
desolation are beiner continued whifck
they justly look upon with horroi
and with burning hearts.
"It is necessary, also in order thai
there may be no possibility of misunderstanding
that the presidenl
should very solemnly call the attention
of the government of Germans
to the language and plain intent oi
j one of the terms of peace which the
' German government has now accepted.
It is contained in the address oi
the president delivered at Mounl
Vernon on the Fourt of July, last.
"It is as follows:
" 'The destruction of every arbitrary
power anywhere that can separately,
secretly and of its single
choice, disturb the peace of the world
or if it can not be presently destroyed,
at least its reduction to virtual
impotency.^ "
"The power which has hitherto
controlled the Greman nation is of
the sort here described. It is within
the choice of the German nation to
alter it. The president's words just
quoted naturally constitute a condition
precedent to peace, if peace is
to come by the action .of the' German
people themselves. The presi,
dent feels bound to say that the
whole process of peace will, in his
I judgment, depend upon the definitej
ness and the satisfactory character
of the guarantees which can be given
in this fundamental matter. It is indispensable
that the governments associated
against Germany should
know beyond a peradventure with
whom they are dealing.
"The president will make a separate
reply to the royal and imperial
government of Austria-Hungary.
"Accept, sir, the renewed assurances
of my high consideration."
(Signed) "Robert Lansing."
Frederick Odelin,
Charge d'Affaires, ad interim, in
l iiai^c ui vjrci liic'.ii uitcicsid 111
? the United States.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
Dr. J. E. Pressly takes this means
of notifying all his patients and
creditors that he has been called to
the service, and will leave Abbeville
on October 23rd. In order to straighten
out his own obligations, it is necessary
that he ask those persons who
are indebted to him to settle before
he leaves. Money may be left for
him at The McMurray Drug Company
in his absence, and a receipt
may be had there. He will appreciate
the prompt attention of all persons
concerned.
J. E. PRESSLY, M. D.
2,000,000 AMERICANS ARE
OVERSEAS SAYS GEN. MARCH
Allies Now Within 14 Miles of Aulnoyc,
Junction Pofat of Two
Chief Artrie* of Communication.
Washington, Oct. 11.?America
has now nearly reached 2,000,000
in troop shipments over here, General
March anounced today.
More than 1,900,000 men are now
in Europe, March said, and shipments
are continuing.
To assure victory the war department
changed the draft ages so that
2,000,000 men might reach soon as
possible and is asking more money for
supplies and ordnance.
The capture of Le Cateau by the
British, March pointed out, bring3 thej
Allied forces to within 11 miles of!
the most stategic town of Aulnoye?|
the great junction point of two rail-i
roads comprising the Chief artery of
communisation of the German forces
in France and Belgium.
An advance of a few more miles,
he said, will put this point under com-'
mand of the allied guns .
The enemy's resistance in the Le
Cateau region is shattered and con-j
stant pressure of the allied forces is
keeping the Germans constantly on
the go, March declared.
In the north the British are 12
miles from Valenciennes and communication
with Douai are threatened. J
From July 13th to September 13th
they captured 248,494 men, 3,699
; guns and vast quantities of other
i weapons.
March located specific units as fol-'
lows:
91st division in the training area
i in France. Deleware troops contained
in the 78 division have been le,
cently reported on the line, exact Io-1
cation unknown. 329 infantry and
> the 83rd are in the training area in(
France. 147 is in the Vosges on the
line. Third division, composed of
,|the 4th, 7th, 30th infantry, and the
,j 10th, 8th and 76th field artillery was
[ reported in the Marne attack. The
, 2nd pioneer infantry, the 320th field
. artillery and the 82nd division were
reported east of the Argonne on Oct
tober 7th.
t- FINAL FIGURES SHOW
J BIG REGISTRATION
r! ?r.
[ Nearly Thirteen Million Enrolled in
> September, Making Grand Total of
Twenty-Three Million.
Washington, Oct. 15.?Final returns
from all States show that 12,966,594
men registered for military
service September 12. This was
" 187,836 in excess of the estimate of
12,778,758 made by the office of Pro'
vost Marshal General Crowder, based
on census figures.
j The total announced today does
not include registrations received by
mail by local boards after September
. 12 nor delayed enrollments by men
who were absent from the country
^ that day. Including such cases it is
believed the actual figures will
be still further increased by the registration
in Alaska, Puerto Rico and
Hawaii, which are to be held on later
dates recently fixed by the president.
With the figures compiled today,
! the total number of men who have
! been registered since the United
! States entered the war is 23,456,021.
Classification by local boards of
j men of the new draft registration
! have been so rapid that questionaires
! soon will be sent youths of 18 and
| men between 37 and 46 years of age.
j Reports today showed that 555 local
j boards, out of 4,543 in the United
j States had classified registrants be|
tween 19 and 37.
Bob Wilson (the Wolf,) the acj
commodating delivery-man for Bowj
den-Simpson Drug Co., is a victim
' of the prevailing malady, which aci
counts for the medicines getting
j there late from this store.
STATEMENT OF THE OWNERcuid
man Af.FMFVT riRril.
j LATION, ETC., REQUIRED BY
THE ACT OF CONGRESS OF
AUGUST 24, 1912,
Of Abbeville Press and Banner,
nnhlished semi-weekly at Abbeville,
i S. S., for October 1, 1918.
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
County of Abbeville.
Before me, a Notary Public in and
for the State and county aforesaid,
personally appeared Wm. P. Greene,
who, having been duly sworn according
to law, deposes and says that he
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is the editor of the Abbeville Pres
and Banner and that the followini
is, to the best of his knowledge an
belief, a true statement of the own
ership, management, etc., of th
aforesaid publication for the dat
shown in the above caption, require
by the Act of August 24, 1912, era
bodied in section 443, Postal La'w
and Regulations, printed on the r<
fAMA 4-Vi-ta Af T?nf
VCIOC VI bins IVlllly VV YTAWi
1. That the names and addresse
of the publisher, editor, managin
editor, and business managers art
Publisher, The Press and Banne
Co., Abbeville, S. C., Editor, Wm. I
Greene, Abbeville, S. C., Managin
Editor, none, Business Manager
Wm. P. Greene, Abbeville, S. C.
2. That the owners are: Wm. I
Greene, Stockholder, Abbeville, S. (
3. That the known bondholder:
mortgagees, and other security hole
ers owning or holding 1 per cent, c
more of total amount of bonds, mor
gages, or other securities are: Dot
son Printers Supply Co., Atlanta, Gi
Mergenthaler Linotype Co., Ne'
York.
2. That the two paragraphs nej
above, giving the names of the owi
ers, stockholders, and security holt
ers, if any, contain not only the lis
of stockholders and security holdei
as they appear upon the books of th
company but also, in cases where th
stockholder or security holder a]
pears upon the books of the con
pany as trustee or in any other fid\
ciary relation, the name of the pe:
son or corporation for whom sue
trustee is acting, is given; also tin
the said two paragraphs, contain
statements embracing affiant's fvj
knowledge and belief as to the cr
cumstances and conditions und<
which stockholders and security hol<
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rophosphates supplies th
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we wouldn't be able to s
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And Druggis
s ers who do not appear upon the
g books of the company as trustees,
d hold stock and securities in a capaci
ity other than that of a bona fire
e owner; and this affiant has no reason
e I to believe that any person, associad
| tion, or corporation has any interest
L-j direct or indirect in tne said stock,
rs; bonds, or other securities than as so
i- stated by him. .
\ WM. P. GREENE,
ig Sworn to and subscribed before me
g this 12 day of October, 1918. .
s: D. H. HILL, N. P. S. C.
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