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THIRTIETH DIVISION "
TO RETURN TO U.S.
South Carolina Nation- SJ(
al Guard Troops Com- thr
ing Home Shortly. in*
' anc
DEPARTURE CHEERED
BY PRAISE FROM HAIG
pot
" ing
Commander of British For cat Styi jn
Dm<U Will Rank With HifW but
Achievements of War. Open- jn ,
ad Way to Final Victory by ^
Gallant Conduct in Bal- ^ (
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bre
American Army Headquarters in ten
France, Nov. 26.?The Seventy-sixth cut
division of the American army, r re- gcc
dnced by replacement drafts to 61 ^
officers and 1,000 men, has arrived
at the port of St. Nazaire and is em- ?<pc
barking for home.
The Twenty-seventh division, to- *"
taling 484 officers and 12,681 men, res1
and the Thirtieth division, totaling
488 officers and 12,099 men, both of an
which operated on the British front, 1
have been withdrawn from the Le- ent
tnans area and probably will embark wel
in a few days. nat
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With the British Army in B?lHum,
Sunday, Nov. 24.?The Ameri- an
can second corps, which served with fist
the British Fourth army daring the ? ?
closing days of the war, has been re- &bl<
irarded for its work by a glowing pat
, er of praiM from Field Marshal fori
Haig, the British commander in the
chief. had
The field marshal's message to the the
commander of the corps says: nat
"Now that yon are leaving the 1
British zone I wish again to thank poii
yon and all the officers, non-commis- staj
sioned officers and men on behalf of at i
myself and all ranks of the British she
armies in France and Flanders for by
the very gallant and efficient service liar
you have rendered during your op-i bac
erationg with the British Fourth and
army. 'iui
"On the 29th of September you I
participated with distinction in a the
great and critical attack which shat- ors
tered the enemy's resistance on the ed
Hindenburg line and which opened Pro
the road to final victory. bra
"The deeds of the Twenty-seventh by
'and Thirtieth American divisions 1
"which took Bellecourt and Nauroy gar
and gallantly sustained the desper- cha
ate struggle for Bony will rank with to
the highest achievements of the war. f0u
"The names of Brancourt, Pre- sti<
mont, Busigny, Vaux-Andigny, St. vh<
Souplet and Wassigny will testify to m0i
the dash and energy of your attacks,
I am proud to have had you in my me
command." of
| tioi
The Thirtieth division mentioned I ros
by Field Marshal Haig is composed sca
chiefly of troops from Tennessee, me
North Carolina, South Carolina, and| ]
the District of Columbia. It is known (toK
as the "Old Hickory" Division. Thej fro
Twenty-seventh and Thirtieth divis-1 .a(j
\ ions probably were the first Ameri- 0
can divisions to fight in Belgium,' nr0
having crossed the border with the!
Fourth British army. The Twenty- si(j
seventh division is composed of New;
York troops. ^
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Washington, Nov. 25.?No active fro
I division of the American expedition-.
ary forces can be landed in the Unit-1 r
ed States before Christmas, Secre- me
tary Baker said today. The policy of; tW(
returning first the thousands of cas-!
uals and auxiliary troops from Eng- ,
I ra
land will postpone the movement of j
firt line troops which have been de-! (
signated for release. j njr
1 BUYING A HOME. mil
Mr. Clifton Sprouse has bought |
the cottage on lower Main street now ha,
occupied by Mr. and Mrs. John T. ga]
Cheatham and will move his family
about the first of the year. The cot- j
tage was owned by Dr. McMurray La
and sold for three thousand dollars. c>t;
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IGRY FIGHTING MEN |
ATTACK SOCIALISTS
monstration in Madison Square
it Which Red Necktie* and
Flower* Were U*ed to Erade
Mayor's Edict.
few York, Nov. 25.?Hundreds of
iiers, sailors and marines broke
ough a cordon of police surroundMadison
Square Garden tonight
1 attacked international Socialists
t> had attended! a mass meeting at i
ich Bolshevik doctrines were exinded.
The men and women leav- (
the hall broke and fled as the men ]
uniform charged past the police, ]
. were pursued into the side strets ;
all directions. ' |
fhe attack on the Socialists came <
;he close of a meeting which threaed
from the moment it began to
ak into a riot. It was called ossibly
to protest against the exeion
of Thomas J. Mooney, but
>tt Nearing, who presided, and the
er speakers devoted most of their
Biition to pleas for the release of
litical" offenders. i
lereral men and women were artod
for displaying red flags smagi
into the garden in defiance of
edict by Mayor "Hylan.
>arge numbers of men in uniform
ered the building before the doors
re locked with the avowed determiion
of preventing attacks upon the
ernment They were restrained
h difficulty by police from making
assault on the stage. Scores of
finAh amm inton^intii/) Ktj nfflcom I
Soldiers and sailors -who were unb
to get into the meeting sent out
rols to round up all men in unim
who could be found to join in
charge on the Socialists which
[ bees planned to take place when
oratory was ended and the interionalists
started for their homes,
iadison Square was the rallying
at for the military. The quickly
?ed an impromptu mass meeting
which speakers denounced the Bolvik.
They were cheered not only
the men in uniform, but by civii
sympathizers. They were driven
:k, however, by mounted police
L men on foot who surrounded the
lding.
Realizing- that they had failed in
first attack, the soldiers and sailresumed
their meeting and awaitthe
arrival of reniforcements.
bably one thousand men of both
nches of the service had assembled j
the time the meeting adjourned. ^
[*he opening of the doors of the ^
den was the signal for a second
rge which the police were unable (
repel. The soldiers and sailors
ght their way past swinging night
:ks and attacked the Socialists,
o had packed the big building. Alst
instantly the square was filled 1
;h yelling, running and fighting i'
n. The screams of women, most;1
them wearing red roses or carna-|
as in lieu of the forbidden flags,''
e above the din as they clawed and j
tched the sodliers who were pu-|(
Iling the male Socialists. I!
Counted police, reinforced by au-|!
tiobile loads of reserves, rushed
m every station house within a |'
lious of miles, struggling valiently | ^
clear the square but made little i
igress. Soldiers and sailors 1
roughly angered by what they con- '
ered an insidious attack on the flag
y had sworn to defend, paid little '
ention to blows from night sticks. '
i
ey were bent on getting revenge;
m the internationalists and many !
them succeeded.
rhe square was cleared of milling'
n only when Socialists by one and
as and in groups broke and fled. |i
e scrimmage in the park was then
nsferred on a smaller scale into j
ivy neighboring street.
Groups of Socialists soon were run-!
ig madly along Fifth Avenue a half j
le north and south of Twenty-Sixth (
*eet pursued by shouting soldiers, i1
>st of them hatless and coatless, j
ring lost the major part of their,
rments in the scuffle.
JTr. M. E. Rcbinson, of Level
nd, was a business visitor to the
y or Wednesday.
FROM CAPT. W
He Writes His Mother of the I
Without Sugar?He Look* a
Channel a Nightmare?No 1
French Girls, Everybody
Bed Conducise to Piat;
tha Cc
France, Oct 19, 1918.
Dearest Mama,
This is my 37th birthday and I'm
going to celebrate by writing you a
long letter. I've almost lost the
knack of letter writing. Every morning
my first task is to censor the letters
written by the members of my
ietachment (as adjutant I am in
:ommand of the headquarters detachment)
and after that it is diffl:ult
to write any yourself. Also
;here is so much we are not permit;ed
to write about.
We had a very pleasant trip over.
[ was adjutant on the ship and be
leve me, it was some job, but I grot
iway with it fine and was highly
!omplimented by the General, the
Thief of Staff and the captain of the
ihip. There -wasn't much excitenent
worth mentioning. I think I
lave already told you that we landed
n England. They didn't let us tarry
ong there. I have some very vivid
mpressions left tho. The night we
Tossed the bar they kept me busy
rntil two o'clock ^nd I remember
' thanked God that I could go to bed
without my shoesy but they called me
it four and they (the other officers)
xearly mobbed me because I had
even buglers blowing reveille
hrough the ship at five. The way
hey unloaded that ship of its 2,500
>assengers was a marvel. There It
vas that I had my first experience
?x cunee wjcQ?ui sugar. ^ it was mu
ight though. Shortly after we were
tntrained and on oar way across
England. We passed a large flour
nill and there were> thousands of
rirls in rather' tight fitting white
iveralls. Their enthusiasm was renarkable.
They waved and threw
asses at us (and some even cried) as
far as we could see. But all the
vay across England they waved at us
md greeted us with cheers. We had
:offee enroute, and were given a let;er
of welcome from King George,
t I
vhich I am inclosing for you to keep
for me. We finally arrived at a rest
:amp where we spent the night. A
ieutenant and I went walking with
rwo very pretty girls?they were
rery pleasant and agreeable but not
is pretty as the American girl. I
lon't believe the English girl takes
is good care of her teeth as the
American girl does.
Crossing the channel was a nightmare.
Not exceptionally rough but
jur ship was crowded. They made
me adjutant again and this time I
had English and Australian officers
also. I slept on the floor that night, i
They* marched us to another rest
:amp and by the time I'd had a
shave and a good bath and eaten
something (while kidding the waitress)
I was told to roll my bed. I]
did not mind though because as the!
French say, "c'est la guerre."
I have been here now over three
months and in that time have seen
luite a bit of France having been in i
Paris twice, east almost to Switzer-I
land, south halfway to Marseilles!
and north near enough to the front!
io hear the cannons shooting. It isj
a great country and the prettiest Ii
think I have ever seen.
The houses are all stone or brick!
with red tile roofs and they present1
a beautiful sight when viewed in the;
distance. Close up they show a rigid'
plainness of style and a solidity of
obstruction I have never seen before.
The villages in England will
always remind me of a vast forest
of chimnevs. houses, windows and
curtains all the same. Here they
are different. One striking thing
here is the great abundance of flowers.
And a curious sight I have seen
frequently in the East of France is
a pear tree trained to grow flat against
the side of a stone house, and
loaded with fruit.
HOME FOR FEEBLE-MINDED
TO BE ERECTED AT ONCE
Governor Gets Fundi?Federal Government
Will Provide Quarter*
at State Penitentiary For
Women Prisoner*.
. All restrictions have been removed
by the war industries board against
the use of materials for the construction
of buildings, work is to begin
r within the next few weeks on the
, home for the feeble-minded, created
( by the last general assembly. Governor
Manning a few days ago res
ceived a permit from the war indus,
tries board to proceed with the building,
and since that time all restrictions
have been removed.
The Board of Regents at the State
r. L. HEMPHILL.
Pleasures of Army Life?Coffee
it Their Teeth?The English
["rouble to Make Love to the
Being Willing?A French
j?Through Peril With
ilonel.
The roads here are unusually
good. The Routes Nationales are
beautiful. These radiate from Paria
to, and connect up with each other,
tire important cities of the RepubHque.
There are enough of these to
reach around the earth at the equator,
.4,000 miles.
Next are the Routes DepartmenI
tales (County Roads) which are the
rdads which radiate from the different
county seats, or "Chiefa-lieux".
There are 18,600 miles of these.
Then there are second class county
roads?village roads, and farm roads.
An auto trip over France in peace
time certainly would be a wonderful
experience. ,
Nearly every letter I have to cen8or
describes the French railways
and trains as diminutive and plaything
affairs!. True, the rolling stock
Is! lighter than ours and the engines
hare no cow-catchers nor bells and
ifye whistles remind one somewhat of
the whistle on a street corner popcorn
roaster, but for all that they
do the work and do it very efficiently
too, which in the end is all that
counts; The roadbeds are good,
safety devices numerous, the guage
broader than ours, and wrecks almost
unknown. The trains here are
very fast?ride easily and in first
(they have 1st, 2nd, and 8rd) class
at least are comfortable. The year
bifforf the war the railroads of
Ftance earned 425 millions of passengers
-or 13,877 per mile. The stations
are all very pretty with flowers,
hedges and trees. They remirtd
me of the Pennsylvania stations and
are always fenced in and your ticket
is punched as you enter. It is taken
up as you leave the station of your
destination. The conductor does not
come around and punch it enroute.
One of the lieutenants said to me
when I arrived from Paris: "Say, you
don't mean to tell me you actually
paid for a ticket, do you?" I sup
pose it really wouldn't be difficult to
ride without paying. '
The express trains have diners on
them. They serve a regular table
d'hote dinner which with wine costs
about $2.00. Ybu are served by
women.
Some of the fast trains have sleeping
cars. They have also an arrangement
called couchettes (from
coucher to sleep). They are somewhat
like our reclining chair cars.
I haven't tried either of these yet.
We get the military rate which is
about a cent a mile in first closs."
The women over here are wonderful.
The younger ones are stylish,
- retty and charming. Almost all of
the work formerly done by the male
population is now being done by the
female population. And they are
doing it well too.. You see them as
street car conductors, baggage
smashers, taxi drivers bartenders,
and farmers. They certainly love
the American soldier?and judging
from what I see and hear?the American
soldier doesn't let anybody
outdo him.
Ac -Tr\r? YTt-xT TTVonVi TMoil T am tyaf.
4A.I3 XVI *44 jr X 4^1IV4ii IT v^4ij Jk Will f,VW
ting along fine. I can talk to them,
joke with them and even make love
to them. We get the French papers
in the morning and the Colonel usually
sends for me to read it to him.
| In the evening we get the English
i papers?The Paris editions of the
: New York Herald, The Chicago Trii
bune and the London Daily Mail.
! They consist usually of one sheet
' only, printed on both sides, of
| course, and cost 4 cents in our
! money.
The money over here you know is
i the franc. It is divided into 100
centimes (pronounced Sahn-teem).
I The smallest piece of money tho is
' the 5 centime piece called a "sou"
(Continued on Page Two.)
Hospital for the Insane have accepted
the cite in Laurens county near Clin*
ton. Several hundred acres are in
the tract presented. The property ;
was recently purchased by residents ]
of that section at a cost of $18,000 j
The general assembly last session ap- <
propriated $60,000 for this institution,
of which amount $30,000 is a- <
vailable this year and $30,000 next i
year. The act provides that "the 1
building shall be plain and inexpen- i
sive in character, and that, in so far j
\s practicable, the labor in construct- ]
:.ng such buildings, improvements,
ind facilities shall be supplied by the
onvicts of the State penitentiary." 1
A meeting of the Board of Regents' <
of the State Hospital for the Insane
will be held early in December when 1
the plans will be outlined for proce- <
dure. i
*4;'
Restriction of the use of building 1
ntterial by the WW industries board 1
has also delayed work on the building 1
j for the Industrial School for Girls,
I which was also created by the last :
! general assembly and which is to be ?
built on State lands in Lexington
county, near Columbia. The insti- 1
tution is to be simiHar in character i
'.o that at Florence for boys. An ap- 1
>ropriation of $40,000 was made by
the legislature last February, and 1
Governor Manning has procured from <
'he federal government $40,000. 1
j which amount has already been plac-j1
ed on deposit in one of the Columbia I
banks. Females between the ages 1
>f eight and 20 years are to be ad-: ]
mitted to this institution; girls, "who (
3hall have been tried before any mag'strate,
county, city or circuit court
and found guilty of violating any
laws for which the punishment is fine '
or imprisonment in-the State peni
sntiary or city jail or by hard labo
or any city or county; or who know
?ly associates with thieves, viciou
or immoral persons; are incorrigible;
absent themselves from home without .
! or without just cause; are growing upj
j n idleness or crime; knowingly visit -.
j >r enter a house of ill repute; visit or; j
| patronize gambling houses, saloons!
lor other immoral resorts; wander a-j'
! bout the streets at night; use vile,I ^
| obscene or indecent language or arej
| immoral or indecent." j
i .1
'| Another large amount from thej
I ieaerai government is aiso iiKeiy toj
, be procured in the interest of wo-!,
' men prisoners. Recently Mrs. Mar-p
j tha P. Falconer, representing the.]
war department on training camp ac-, (
| tivities, visited Columbia and propos- .
! ed to Governor Manning and the
board of directors of the State peni-j
1 tentiary a plan whereby a large new
'building will be added to the peni-'
j "entiary equipment from federal ]
j funds. This building is to be erect- <
! cd on State farm lands and is to be
[ \ women's prison farm. The condi- 1
tions on which the federal govern-' 1
J ment will give the funds and. to11
wllirVi fJnvprnnr Mnnnino' arirl fVio i
t' board of directors have agreed is i
: that the 40 or 50 women prisoners
, are to be sent there and not kept'
'housed in the old penitentiary build-'1
ings; that the State penitentiary au-'
'\ thorities will provide for the mainte-'
ance of these prisoners as they are*
now provided for and also pay the 1
i staff in charge of the prisoners; and
>I that federal women prisoners in the |
'State be admitted, the federal gov;!
ernment to allow so mjich per diem
' for the maintenance of the federal
prisoners.
i
CONGRESS 10 CHOP7
THE EXPENDITURES
Has Served Warning to
Heads of Departments
Already.
PEACE-BASIS FIGURES
AND NOT WAR COSTS
" y . ..v:
Will Be the Yard Stick to Be Applied?No
Salary Increase* at Tkis
Time?-Conyresa to Take Full
C l -f n 1 r?
vommana or Financial won*
traction to Enforce Peace
Time Economy.
Washington, Nov. 27.?Unexpended
war appropriations must be
returned to the treasury, Chairman '
Sherley, of the House appropriations
committee announced today.
. In a letter to cabinet officials and
ither heads of independent departnents
Sherley set oat the determination
of Congress to take full comnand
of financial construction with
i view to enforcing a program of
jeace time economy.
Washington, Nov. 27.?Con gran
ias determined to take fall command
'
>f financial reconstruction.
Executive heads are to be asked
a cooperate toward a program or
Irastic peace time economy, but >
whether or not they comply they
will be made aware that Congress
lolds the final authority in money
natters.
Developments, expected soon, will
serve as a warning to cabinet officials
and others who spend money.
1.?That any unexpended war sp-. _
propriations in the hands of departments
will be revoked by Congress
it once.
2.?That expenditures on contract
ar other war work must stop immediately
and any excess supplies on
hand must he liquidated and the
money returned to the treasury.
3.?That all departmental estimates
for the fiscal yea rof 1919-20 must
be recalled by departments and
chopped to the last cent.
While economic talk ftas flown
thick and fast about Congress since
the end of the war, Chairman Swagar
Sherley, of the House appropriations
has taken the first definite action.
YOUNG BUSINESS MAN OF
DONALDS KILLED IN ACTION
;
Donalds, Nov. 23.?On the 20 inst,
Mr. Wm. Maddox of Ware Shoals, received
official notice that his son,
Louis F. Maddox, was killed in ac- x
tion on October 15. Mr. Maddox was
a salesman for L. J. Davis of Donalds
prior to his entry into the service
and was one of the best and
aost popular young business men
that we knew.
A letter from a young French lady
reports that Walter Jackson was
wounded. Mr. Jackson is another'
Donalds boy. As there has been no
letters received from France for several
weeks and as nearly all the Donllds
boys have been in heavy fighting,
ihere is uneasiness about all of them.
ONE MORE BOND ISSUE.
Washington, Nov. 27.?Secretary
McAdoo today announced plans "for
ane more great popular campaign
for sale of bonds." In a letter to all
banks made public by the treasury
he outlined the treasury's policy for
the next five months embracing a
series of bi-weekly treasury certificates
issued in anticipation of the
fifth loan.
Cessation of hostilities, McAdoo's
letter said, has by no means brought
to an end the heavy war cost. Government
expenditures for the month
of November will exceed -2,000,000000
and establish a new record for
monthly war cost. The letter explained
that there can be no definite
forecast for disbursement of the next
five months because of the pending
uncertainty of the revenue legislation.