The Abbeville press and banner. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, April 07, 1920, Image 4
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Abbeville, S. C.
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Wednesday, April 7, 1920
A NEW VEGETABLE '
The town garden and- the city farw
mer have been for time past the
butt of many jokes and the former
frequently a happy reality for the
neighbors, chickens and pigeons. But
the city farmer was a very great
help, not only to himself, but to the
country, during war-garden activities
then, has since helped in the
fight to win against the high cost of
living. The Albany (Ga.) Herald
says:
"It's great to have a garden, even
though it produces few vegetables.
It's great to have a place for outdoor
exercise?a place in which to
turn up the fragrant earth *with a
spading fork, level it with a rake
and lay it off with a trench hoe.
Some folk say it's better exercise
than golf or tennis, though on that
question we do not presume to sit
in judgment. A man can work in his
garden before sunrise, when golf
links are too wet with the dew to be
used, and his garden is a whole lot
nearer home than the golf club.
"And there is no reason why Mr.
Town-dweller cannot have a garden
with real vegetables in it if he will
give a little practical thought and
diligent application to its preparation
and care."
And now it is time to get the gardening
habit,?if it ever stops rainine?when
the undoubted sDrine
season is with us and maybe somebody
will take the same interest in
your exploits, horticulturally, as a
Tampa, Fla., concern did when this
week the following letter was received
by a prominent lady of the
city, who had announced her intention
of becoming a female Burbank:
"Dear madam:
Since being informed that you are
contemplating on going into extensive
era rH oniric T am folrinw n
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tage of the first opportunity to
write you a personal letter recommending
to you our latest model
wheel barrow seed, which we are
posting you today under# separate
cover. The product of these seeds
are a wonder and gives satisfactory
wherever tried, and we recommend
them to ride the easiest and the best
of any other make in the world. So
as a repable firm of many years
standing heartily recommend them to
you. Here's hoping that you will
have success and a great many
young wheel barrows by next J fall,
we are, |
Yours respectively, ?j
Bureau Dept."
I
Now For The Draft-Dodgers
And Deserters?173,711 Of Them j
Not in any spirit of wholesale ven-'
geance, but in justice to the 2,800,000
American men wtio entered the
t
Army under .Selective Service Act,
the Government is now engaged in J
rounding up the comparatively small
portion of men listed as willful de-j
serters. Of the more than 23,000,-!
000 called by the draft only
173,911, according to present figures,
refusedjto observe the rules of
the game. One of the first stei>s in 1
the Government's round-up, wUl be I
the publication of the names'"of these'
men. Discharges have already \ beeii1
issued to ma<iy who were unjustly
accused, and atrial by courts martial,
will follow foV* those deemed guilty'
of real desertion. In pushing these
trials, says Philip von Blon, writing
in the Home Sector, the War De
partment feel that it is keeping faith j
with he great majority who obeyed
the law. The Writer offers in evidence
this little incident as typical of
a situation on which much of the official
view may be based:
Three young men who had been
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lifetime friends met in reunion one'
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day last autumn in a North Carolina . gf
town not far from Tar Heel Moun- )
tain.
It was not an ordinary meeting, a
case of friends happening to come
together at the .same corner on a
Saturday afternoon, Tor *.?ese three
young North Carolina men had n?t
seen one another for? two years? j
since the early autumn of 1917.
They had parted in doubt after
that former meeting. Two of them
had gone one way, and the third had
gone another ?the opposite way.
The Draft Law had enrolled the
young men of the North <. Carolina
|town, and two of the three friends
jhad boarded a train for one of the
great new army cantonments in a
|neighboring State. The third, who
by the records of the Draft Board
(should' also have been on that train,
I had traveled a mountain road that
.brought him at length among
strangers.
Before they had parted, he had
jtried to convince his friends that the
mountain road was the better, for it
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I was in his nature that he did not :
wish to go alone.
So, when the three met again last
autumn it was certain, even before
a word was spoken, that the choice
of roads was still open for argument.lt
happened that the two men j
who had gone the one way together |
l had come back to a starting place j
jwitn empty sleeves?they had but |
J one good pair of arms between them, j
The man who had traveled alone had
come back sound. He had both arms
and a confidence that was even
greater than his assurance of the
jautumn of 1917. And true to his .
nature he said:
"I told you so."
Within a stone's throw of the
Potomac river on the outskirts of
Washington here is a low, one-storied
building with a roof of many skylights,
and under the skylights are
.many acres of floors on which filingjcases
stand end to end, jow on row
^n long perspective. Sbmewhere in
one of these filing-cases is an
h^velop
bearing the name of the man.
who said, "I told you so." Before
v$ry long -?hafc,envelop will be taken
out of the filing-case, and shortly
thereafter the man who said, "I
told you so," will be appearing before
an army court martial.
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JL/escrwivn la wic
will appear after his feme on the
court-martial^ecojjdg. J^d it is reasonably
certaip that cqfart
, martial re$afts> tfta.iip^who said ,"I
told you so," will be serving a sentence
of eightggfi jnonths' imprisonment
in a Federal penintentiary?Leavenworth,
Atlanta, or one
of the others.
The War Department has pledged
its word to keep faith with all the
'men who traveled the same road
|with the comrades of the man who I
J said, "I told you so." It has not for- j
I gotten the men who slipt out of j
; sight after they had been registered
! under the draft and had been start- j
ed into the Army. They may have j
gone to Mexico, of South America, J
or elsewhere, but, we are assured:
In the building along the banks of
Jthe Potomac at Washington it has
been keeping account of all of
them. Every filing-case in that
building is filled with records of
unfaithfulness, and the AdjutantGeneral
at the present moment has
cataloged 173,911 names of those j
classified as "willful deserters" un- I
der the Selective Service Law.? \
Literary Digest.
TEN EXTRA DEPUTIES ARE
AT TRIAL OF LITTLE GIRL
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St. Louis, April- 1.?Ten extra deputies
were on duty in juvenile court
today at the resumption) of the tfjal
-o* "Utsula ; Frckl stick, 16 " yea rs ' oW,
charge^ with first degree, murder w\
connection with! the shooting"'
death of- her stepfather, Joseph Fv
Woodlock, April 14 last. The extra
guard was assigned to forestall a
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lepewuun ui tne irouDie mat oc- i
curred yesterday when Mrs. Wood- 1
lock, the defendant's mother, was I
attacked by Mrs. Bridget Corcoran, I
sister of Thomas P. Broderick. Mrs. j
Woodlock's first husband, who was j
shot to death by Ursula four years j
ago. The girl was exonerated at that j
time, claiming she fired in defense I
of her mother. j
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