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fcatahlt?iir?. 1B35. J. L. MIMS,_Editor. Published every Wednesday in The Advertiser Building at $2.00 per year !n advance. Entered as second class matter at Jhe" postoffice at Edgefield, S. C. No communications will be pub lished unless accompanied by the miter's name. Cards of Thanks, Obituaries, Res olutions and Political Notices pub lished at advertising rates. Wednesday, June ll. Alvin York has put Tennessee on the map in big red letters. Not a strike since yesterday morn ing. The old world is growing better. As many graduation and wedding "days are crowded into June, it should be a good month for the florists. The young man with a salary of $50 per month who takes unto him self a June bride should be cited for bravery. Now that the Germans have been "licked," we'll have less licking to do after July 1. On that date pre war postage rates will be restored. As long as Woodrow Wilson re mains abroad, Alvin York will be the first American citizen at home. That is as it should be. All honor to him! "An Atlanta woman kills her hus band," says a headline. Atlanta seems to be a fated place for husbands. Bet ter remain single or stay in Carolina. We trust that the bumper wheat crop will mean more pies and cakes, as well as more biscuits. With Mr. Hoover shorn of his power, why shouldn't it? The h ero of the World War si lenced 25 German machine guns, but he will hardly be able to silence one little Tennessee woman-so powerful and yet so weak. A German writer declares that the Kaiser made the mistake of waiting too long to start this war. Well, grant it, but this is one mistake that the old cuss will never be able to correct. Strikes, riots, murders, lynchings, homicides, suicides are daily occur ences. War may be at an end over seas but blood-shed has not ceased on this side of the Atlantic. Young man, it pays to do some thing- worth while in the world. As proof of the statement, we point you to Alvin York. He's the most sought after man in America to-day. Although reputed to be a live wire himself, Secretary Burleson seems to have made a miserable job of manag ing the wires and will gladly turn them back to their rightful owners. Not one of the 7,803 national banks of the country is located in Edgefield county. But we have six State banks that are the pride and boast of our people. They are veri table financial Gibraltars. When the school doors close to your boy, what doors will you open to him for the summer vacation? The streets will lure him but would it not be wise to make some form of em ployment more attractive to him? We actually saw in the papers yes terday that one church in the State had voluntarily increased the salary of its pastor. About the last thing to go up has been pastors' salaries when they should have been among the first. A headline says, "President Wilson will leave French capital in about ten days." His presence in Washington is sorely needed at this time. He can not whip those obstreperous Republi can senators into line but he may be able to restrain them. "Uncle Sam" has had two big jobs on his hands, winning the war and operating the railroads. He made a world-wide success of one and a na tion-wide failure of the other, and in proportion to the size of the under takings, one proved about as expen sive as the other. Not Able to Own Bonds. Brokers are bidding for Liberty bonds and our people are selling them. The South was able to buy J ; bonds but it is not yet able to own . ?bonds. It would be safe to stake a ' ! goodly* sum upon the assertion that ninety per cent, of the eighteen bil- {' lions of dollars of war bonds issued will be owned in eight of the forty- ' eight States in less than ninety days. .' However, give us what our cotton is' worth for a few years and we will bt ? able to buy them back and some more ? besides. AU the South asks is half a chance. Own Your Home Law. Some new departures are made at < every session of congress and these ! innovations in legislation, if they ( I may be termed such, are helpful to J a considerable portion of the citizen- ' ship of America. As a sort of com- i panion law to that which assists 1 young men in purchasing and paying 1 for a farm, a measure has been intro-1 ' duced in congress providing a fund to be used in assisting heads of fam- 1 ilies to own their homes. This is a < commendable step forward in estab- 1 lishing thousands of homes in Ameri- i ca upon a firmer foundation. The Advertiser has always urged 1 men who are renting homes or farms ( to purchase just as soon as they see 1 their way clear to meet the payments. { ( All things else being equal, the man c who owns his home makes a better t citizen. He takes a greater interest in i the community life, in the develop- ? ment of the schools, in the support of I the churches, in building and main- s taining good roads and in scores of 1 other ways he manifests a broader 1 spirit. He becomes more of a perma- ? nent resident, being moi*e firmly an- 1 chored by the ownership of a home i or farm. | We trust that the measure to pro- t vide federal assistance with the view ( '.of increasing the number of home c : owners in America will become a J law. Good For Compulsory Education. i| The Advertiser is not informed at . this time just what the increase will j be in school attendance in Edgefield j county as the result of the enforce- ^ ment of the compulsory school at- t tendance law, but we see already that 2 some other sections of the State will ( be very materially benefitted. A dis- ( patch from Greenville states there j will be sufficient increase in school j attendance in the city of Greenville ] land vicinity to make necessary the j employment of fifteen additional 2 teachers. That is fine. If the law ac- ? complished no more than that, for < one county even, it would be worth j j while. But is it not reasonable to sup- ? pose that every one of the forty-five j counties in the State will be benefit- ^ ted? In counties where the percent- ? !a?re of illiteracy is high the beneficial results of this much-needed law will be greatest. The percentage of illit- j eracy among the white population of Edgefield' county is very low, proba bly lower than the average county in the State. Yet in spite of this record, Edgefield needs the law, if it be the means of causing a dozen more chil- j dren to attend school at least four ^ months of the school term. ^ We believe the law will be enforc- c ed in this county, and it should be en- r forced in every other county in the j State. (c When Labor is Easy. Experience teaches that farm la bor, like labor everywhere, may be t "easy" or "hard" according to the a way the laborer regards it. If the * a work is done because the worker-sees . b the importance of it and finds satis faction in doing it well, lt will be r easy If the laborer regards the work c as being of little value and bemoans a the fact that there is no one else to v do it, it becomes a drudgery. '( We should have good reasons for h everything we do and a strong de- I sire for doing it well. When we have a such incentives the work is likely to f be easy and we generally get pleas-1 ure from having accomplished the h task. 11 But it is very difficult to find pleas- e ure in a task where one must contend t with the forces of resistance without li the aid of implements, machines and t and other conveniences needed. If the 1< hands must compete with machines c and implements then the worker does h not find pleasure in the work. Such n work is irksome and causes fatigue, o We owe it to ourselves, to the busi- a ness of farming, to save our physical t strength and general efficiency by t making use of labor-saving aids in t farm work. t Improved machinery, farming im- * plements and household conveniences s give pleasure and comfort. They are e required to rest the body and exer- a eise the mind. They interest young j people and thus help them train the ' o [mind.-Farm and Ranch. jk , Longstreet at Gettysburg. In looking over the "Reminiscence of the Civil War" by Gen John E Gordon, he says that Gen. Longstree was slow in making the attack on th morning of July 2nd, and that Ger Lee had ordered Longstreet to opel che battle at sunrise and it was twi o'clock before Gen. Longstreet coull be found, and that Gen. Lee wa wondering what had become of hi "war-horse." Gordon lays all thi blame on Longstreet's "tardiness,' as he calls it, in not having his Firs Army Corps on the field in time. Now, I do not like to take issu< against a dead man, but in this casi [ will, and with gloves off. Gen. Gor ion waited until Gen. Lee died bef or? bringing this false statement against Gen. Longstreet The truth of th( matter is, Gen. Gordon never did like Lee's -"war-horse," he was very jeal JUS of him, which all the army officers ?cnew. This was not the first tim? ;hat Gen. Gordon tried to snatch the 'roses" from Longstreet. Listen what Gen. Lee says aftei ;his great battle : "If I had listened tc Gen. Longstreet, things would have >een different at Gettysburg." That s a matter of history. Now, I'm going to come down to jrass tacks. I was on that march with jen. Longstreet. Gordon was not a ong that night before the battle. On ;he evening of July 1st, Longstreet's :ommand left Chambersburg about I o'clock, perhaps it was 5 o'clock, ind marched all night, reaching Get ;ysburg alittle while before day light Hy brigade (Kershaw's), halted in a ?wamp and remained there until a )ouc gray-dawn. We were then moved >ack and forth, up and down the line lome three or four times. At last we ?alted and were told to be ready to nove at a moment's notice. By this time the sun was about at he tops of the trees. Now, mark you, }en. Gordon says that Longstreet :ould not be found until mid-day, luly 2nd. At sunrise, maybe a little after, jen. Lee and Gen. Longstreet, with hree or four of their staff, rode by ;ome thirty yards in rear of the then, ine of battle, "boot-to-boot." Gen. -ee knew just where Gen. Longstreet vas before daylight of that morning, md he knew that Longstreet was .eady for the fray. As I have stated, jen. Gordon waited until Gen. Lee's leath to bring these charges against ;he greatest fighter in the army, sim )ly because he did not like Gen. longstreet, because he commanded ;he First Army Corps and stood in .ank next to Lee. It was universally icknowledged in the First Army 2orps that if Gen. Lee had a hard mt to crack, he always caltech for his 'war-horse" to crack it and he never .ailed. No, Gen. Longstreet was not ;ardy on any battle fieid. There was a kind of intuition a nong the soldiers ox Loago creer? :orps that after ail tue ocher troops lad made fheir long marches, tuviycd it the flanks of the enemy, threat en id his rear, and all display of strate :y and generalship failed, then when ne hard, stubborn, decisive blow vas to be struck, the troops of the rirst Army Corps were called upon 0 strike it. Gen. Longstreet had in 'ormed Gen. Lee at the outset: "My :orps is as solid as a rock-a great ock. I will strike the blow and win f the other troops gather the fruits .f the victory." How confident the "Old War lorse" was in the solidity and cour ige of his troops, and soon his seven een thousand men were to be pitted .gainst the whole army of the Po omac. Still, no battle was ever con idered decisive till Longstreet, with iis cool, stead;/ head, his heart of teel and tromps, who acknowledged io superior .:or scarcely equal, in an ient or modern times, in endurance nd courage, had measured strength irith. the enemy. I repeat again what Jen. Lee had to say after this battle, iis words, and they are historic: "If had listened to Gen. Longstreet's dvice, things would have been dif erent." It was not in Gen. Longstreet's eart to make the assault on "Little lound Top." He did not favor Pick tt's charge on the 3rd day. He bit erly opposed this useless sacrifice of ?fe and limb. In his "Memoirs" he ells how he pleaded with Lee to re base him from the responsibility of ommand. I have Gen. Longstreet's istory, "From Manassas to Appo iattox," also Gen. Gordon's "History f the Civil War." I've never known nyone to use the pronoun "I" as of en as he, "I" and "my." "I" planned he battle; "my" division whipped he fight, etc. Now, the truth of his ory is, if Gen. Lee had ordered Gen. jongstreet to make the attack at unrise, the order was countermand d. He was ready and his troops were s solid as a great rock. 1 can't tell where Gen. Gordon was n the morning of July 2nd, but I do now that Gen. Longstreet was JUST RECEIVED ? A big shipment of White Tub Skirts that we are going to put on sale at ONE-THIRD OFF for Ten days only: Positively no skirts charged in this re duction sale. lt will pay you to see these skirts. There are plenty of extra sizes, and the styles are the latest. They a.e finished with chic pockets and large pearl but tons. Study these prices then come in and examine the quality of these skirts. . $3.25 skirts going for $2.17 3.75 skirts going fpr 2.50 . , 4.50 skirts going for 3.00 4.75 skirts going for 3.17 5.00 skirts going for 3.33 ' 5.50 skirts going for 3.67 7.50 skirts going for 5.00 8.00 skirts going for 5.33 8.50 skirts going for 5.67 Get a bottle of Odorono and do away with both the bother of excessive per spiration and dress shields, besides of keeping, your most expensive dresses from being ruined. Odorono is the best preparation on the market for the prevention of exces sive perspiration, without causing any harm to the person using it. We have it in popular sizes of 30 cents and GO cents bottles. We have a large line of Georgette and Crepe de Chine waists, and can show you some pretty waists at popular prices, in all sizes. You won't regret a purchase in any of the above items. The Corner Store "Johnny-on-the-spot." At any time in the day or night, if Gen. Lee had ordered Longstreet to open the battle, he would have struck Gen. Meade like a cyclone, just like he did at 2 o'clock that same day. My next will be Gen. Longstreet at Gettysburg. J. RUSSELL WRIGHT. Honor Roll-Edgefield High and Graded School. Grade I Marie Bussey Horace Dorn Helen Dunovant Mary Holmes Marion Hudgens Carrie Johnson Emma Mims Elizabeth Nicholson Frances Paul. Grade II Bertha Bussey William Byrd Mary Cantelou Naomi Davis Janie Edwards Elizabeth Kemp Clara Morgan Dorothy Marsh Walton Mims Mary Lorene Townsend Martha Stewart Grade III Fitzmaurice Byrd Rudolph Davis Eleanor Dunovant Carolyn Dorn Ned Nicholson John Nixon Geo. Edward Sheppard J. R. Timmerman Mary Thurmond Grade IV Effie Allen Lott Mary Lynch Orlando Morgan June Nicholson Margaret Strom Frances Wells Grade V Elizabeth Bailey 1 Katherine Stewart .) 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