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KEOWEE COURIER (Established 1840.) (Published Every Wednesday Morning t?mbnoriptlou 91 l'or Aiiiiiun. Advertising Rates Reasonable. -Ry Ktf.ECK, SIIELOH ?V: BOHRODER. Communications of a personal oharactor charged for as advertisc Obituary notices ann tributes of t'ttcpoct, of not over 100 words, will :VM printed free of charge. All over tthat number must t>o paid for at the v?/io o? one cent a word. Cash to ?tocompany manuscript. WALU ALIJA, ?. C. WEDNESDAY, MAY li, 11117, The above i? the design of a but ).on io be distributed in Sou til Caro Ji?a by bunks, chnmhers of com merce', business linns ami others. 1*1 io badge has been adopted by tho Sooth Carolina 1* re pa rod ness Com mission Any farmer should be ?muid lo wear one of these badges. LOCAL CAMPAIGN CLOSKB. rho Walhalla section of the Oeo .jec Food Preparedness Campaign .dosed with the meeting ut Oconee re* K last Frida} night, and it was a most >;at.Inflictor} closing for n bard neck's work. The arrangement of l.h( Hine ary had boen planned at the (preparedness meeting al tho Court lons, on Saturday, April 2 1st. at tv h ic h |>r. Higgs, nf Clemson, and ellon :C V Cooper, ol' Laurens, were tn principal speakers, representing .no state Preparedness Committee. Monday morning ol' last week found .?,Ti earlies! body ol' tuen and women w tlic Baptist church in Walhalla wendy .<> lay the plans for a un ?ck mi fl early campaign for the territory issi g neil to the Walhalla workers, ll ./minaced the ciglll sections repre ;v.-r.tod by the schools al Ebenezer, Pn'triioid, Keowee, ricket Post, Xor * c n i. Fairview. Salem and Oconee Creek. Two committees were np .)oiiile(i, thus enabling these workers .w finish the campaign during the 'W/.-ek, closing Friday. Working from '?he two *MK1S ot tho sections oin Sbracod by these schools, the coinmit ?Yees joined forces at Oconee Creek friday night, and Hie best attended snooting of the campaign was held. Arid we believe that Oconee is letting lo do this year what she lias never done before--provision herself and have something to help along .he great cause of feeding oilier sec tions so that the great food-produo i fi y 'West can this year furnish sup plies Tor our own armies and for rho allies of our country without im posing IInnecessary hardships upon the South. We say thal we believe ".Ms because we have seen the sturdy Wien of ?his section of our county, nave talked with them, and have Vieard the ready response of the wo ?nr.evi ol' these communities to the ap peals of tho women members of the Preparedness Committees; we have .'-?-r-:i tho evidences ol' determination ttil the pori of these good people to .do their part to tho fullest extent in Uhls the nat ion's hour of need. Our county, we believe, is thoroughly awake, our people alive to the neces sity of living at home this year, and not only living at home, hut helping to furnish to others those Illings es sential to sustaining lifo. We have :.Vtwa.v.s had au abiding !':>!!!>. in Ooo si we and Oi onee's good people, bul ?vc have never had thc Tait h in her and In Hiern thal we have to-day.. This because we have soon more of ?v,u- county in proces-s nf prepara!ion for service lo the home and to the world than ever before, and because we have seen and heard mole of tho people and I heir expressed desiri to Oj wider servile than has ever ?;?een our privilege in the past to see ?ind hoar. We have a urea I county, and ihis county is the home of the bowl people on earth a section und a people In which alic' in whom it ls safe lo rely. Dooroo and her people will do their purl! Of this we feel as certain a.> that the ^ ii ii win rise each morning an,I set each evening in the future as VJ od has ordained that it shall do till '.'nee shall be Un more. We ?un proud of Oconee. proud of her people, and : dad that we had ibis special op portunity of .n ; \i 11 ? -, ??nd mingling ?villi thom m ;i manner liol hereto fore on i priv liege. C)C0110C is "oin e; to work in enrn yjst from il sense of duty and from a see. e of patriotism. Hui there is more than national patriotism for tho moment and personal duty in ttlrno of need embraced In t ho good work thal is being done. There is ?W'lf-preservallon at the hot loin and ??.ase and tho opportunity to serve in a nation-wide sphere this year as WOVOr before. And then, too, we tire going to leam a lesson, we believe, ?bat will prove beneficial in the years io co re, when peace reigns supremo ..md wars shall have been forgotten. 'PS ; uro going to reap the line fruits of ll .'lng at home and makin!,' the South's great staple crop subservient io our wills and our interests. We au n no ion ure to fight a war of ct o m o? ri cy as against the autocratic or one-man government, Wo of tho South havo In a way hoon living un der th!? ?ort of rule too long. We have hoon serving King Cotton till we aro the willing slaves of this arbi trary monarch to our own hurt. The rule of Kin? Cotton iy to bo over thrown. King Cotton is going to bo brought down from his throne and is going to be made the servant of tho people ho bas so long and so arbi trarily ruled. ills rule hore is as surely doomed as aro tho miers of the autocratic governments of IO uro po. Let us of Oconee resolve now that wo ?hall lune no small part in the overthrow of European autocracies in the present world war. Our part in tlx* main 1? to supply our own food and to help supply tho food of the armies and peoples of our allies. Then; when wo have accomplished ibis great work-wo have never yet failed in a national undertaking let us locally turn to tho task of freeing tho South from t>o cruel domination of King Cotton. Let us make him our servant, not our mas ter, for all future time. "Ile also serves who only stands and waits" ls to-day obsolete Cot busy at something. There ls no room in the United States for a single idler. Wo will be glad to have the twelve | young mon of the graduating class of | tho Walhalla High School como to j The ('out ier olllce and receive each a j little gift worth intrinsically a mete nothing. Hut. according to our estimate of lt, one of tho most price less gems of modern literature, the acme of expressed statesmanship Americanism epitomized in a sum mary of the principles of liberty. Jus- i tice and truth, lt is needless for us to say that we have for each one of j these young men a copy of President Wilson's message to the Congress of j tho United States, gotten up in at-1 ?tractive form for preservation. I M 1ST SPEED UP POODSTUI TS. _. I World War Itapidly Entering Stage ol' Pood Problem. Washington, April 27.-Evidence of growing success for the ruthless .Connan submarine blockade has I forced tho problem of supplying the j entente quickly with food and other j ! necessities sharply to tho forefront of j the American government's war pro gram. Aroused by information brought to this country by the British and I French war missions. President WU- ' son and bis cabinet set about to-day to launch with ils full force as speed ily as possible their campaign to break down tho blockade, planned by i be administration as the nation's first physical stroke against Oer I many. Pood Problem. The food problem occupied the cabinet meeting almost to the exclu sion ol' all the other important war questions before the government. Af terwards it was indicated that the re cent Cern?an submarine ravages were ! considered so successful that the Uni ted 'States must marshal its resources 1 immediately to put moro merchant ships in commission, to help deviso some means of fighting submarines and to insure a greater yield of food stuffs to offset the increasing destruc tion of food cargoes in the war zone. .Must Act Quickly, Members ol' the cabinet took to the meeting a great quantity of informa tion given by the visiting missions, including a plea by some members of the French commission that America must act quickly if the world ts to bo saved from famine. Recent declara tions in tho British Parliament were reviewed as supplementing this evi dence. There was no attempt to con ceal tho Impression that tho food problem had taken on an aspect mak ing it incomparably the most press ing question facing tho United States in its efforts to stem the progress of its enemy. More Energetic stejvs. Although details of the steps to bo taken were not revealed, there were i indications to-night that more oner- | getic measures might be expected to I speed up the work of relieving the food situation in tho entente coun tries. These measures, it was pre dicted, would be the first to take j form as a result of the international war conference here. Acceleration of the shipping board's program for a great fleet ot' wooden ships to carry foodstuffs is regarded as certain. To Increase Tonnage. To increase the trans-Atlantic ton nage the board ls striving to put the Connan and Austrian ships into ser vice as quickly as possible and the transfer to foreign trade of as many as practicable of the coastwise and (?real Lakes steamers and more ener getic steps than ever in that direction are looked for. Farly action on food control legislation is forecast. More Destroyers. What thi" navy will do directly to combat th.c submarine menace bas not been fully developed, but it is known that Secretary Daniels is plan ning further conference with ship builders to speed up the const ruct ion of destroyers, the type of naval ves sel generally regarded as most effect ive against undersea crail. lt is known also that American naval ex perts in their conferences with the visiting ofl'.cers of the British and French navies are considering vari ous proposals for American co-opera tion in developing means to light the submarino. Vs to denium Food Situation, Now York. April 29--A Norwcsin . steamship, the first passenger liner to leave a Scandinavian pori for the United States since the early part ol' February, arrived here to-day with I.IG5 persons on board. Many were I Americans, stranded ii: Denmark, j Norway and Sweden when sea traffic ! was interrupted by the Cern?an sub I marine declaration of January '?I. I Among tho A .nor',-ans wore a num ber of physicians who had been work ing in Oer ma n ru 1 Austrian hospi tals. They said that rigid censorship now pr?-ails on ..ll news- out of Ger many a"d "o word of thc labor trou ALL WI lil/ 1110 ItHCISTKilKI). .Machinery Hoing Oiled I*re|wi'atory tn Manufacturing dirent Army. lust Uko any other great manufac turing Industry, tho making of a army from raw material will require (lie setting in motion of much ma- I chiiiery. And the big mill that is ?oing to turn out one of the greatest, armies ever massed is being put into shape, Hie machinery in place, and the oiling process has been begun even before tim raw material is in ac tual sight. Hut then the government-and in the United States "we. the people," are thc government-isn't figuring1 on luiving to send (?.,. and bring in i Hie raw material for the big army- | making plant. "America expects 1 every man to do Iiis duty," and the ! very first duty will be for every man j of military age to come forward at a j given time, enroll himself on Uncle . Sam's big list, then wait the sum- ' mons to take Iiis place In the line of those who are to do the fighting for the freedom of peoples of other gov ernments that are still carried on by the few at the expense of the many. Sheriff Jas. M. Moss has just re ceived from Columbia, where he was appointed as chairman of the county registration committee or board. This board in each county or parish of every State in the Union will be composed of the Clerk of Court and .indue of Probate-or the officers whose official duties correspond with those officiais, no matter what the particular official title may be-and one citizen of the county or parish. Under them will work registering coinmisisoners in every election pre cinct or district, before whom every citizen ol' military age will be notified to go and register his name, place ot birth, age. race or nationality, etc. This part of the general plan has not been as yet fully worked out in one detail, because Congress has not as yet definitely fixed the military age. lt may be '21 to 40 years, or it may bo some other minimum and maxi mum fixed as best serving the needs of the country in the present crisis. Hut it matters not as to those minor details. The main feature is that your Uncle Sam says that we must all come forward and be registered for his information for the purpose of making up the army that is to do the fighting for liberty and independ ence across the water. So soon as Congress settles the question as to military a gos this machinery will be set In motion, and we will be notified to come forward at a certain :inio that will bo fixed, giving the Infor mation that Uncle Sam must have concerning "the boys" of his meat big family of some one hundred and len or twelve million souls. And when your Uncle Sam says "Come," why, come and he done with it. If you do not come when you're called "we. the people."-our government - will want to know why, and we will lix some severe penalties for the fellow who wants to shirk a duty. But you need not fear that Uncle Sam is going to be unreasonable. He's not that kind of fellow. He'll give amide notice before any penal ties will be attached, and tlie fellow who draws a penalty will have only , himself to blame. Bvery male citizen, white or color ed, must come forward when notified to do so. registering what informa tion concerning himself that may bo required. Then when you are need ed you will be notified. He ready to respond. "Here am I!" Prcpuredness Meeting Thursday. Bounty Land. April 30.-Special: Mr. and Mrs. W. I. BuBose, of Cone ross. were recent guests at the home of E. L. Stone. Miss Thomas, of Woodruff; Miss Free, of Jonesville, and Miss John son, of Seneca, were guests last week ? of Miss Ruth Berry. \ Mrs. Julia D. Shnnklln left Friday for Anderson, where she will be a : guest of her son. J. B. Shanklin. Mr. and Mrs. Jackson Mooro met with a serious accident Saturday af ternoon. As they were returning fron. Seneca their car collided with another, driven by Mr. Murphree, of the Coonee Creek section. Mr. and , Mrs. Moore and their two sons were ; thrown under the car. Mrs. Moore re ceiving an ugly cut across the fore head. The other occupants were somewhat bruised, but their injuries ; are not serious. A. S. Crumpton. of Seneca cotton 1 mills, was a recent visitor In the com- j muni ty. A meeting of tho farmers of this 1 section has been called by the com- ? mit too which is making a tour of the Seneca township, urging the farmers j to plant more food crops, thus doing I their share of making up the great ? shortage of the South in the produc tion of food supplies. This meeting ? will bo held at Hie school house, on ! Thursday, the 3d, at 8 p. m. Bvery man and woman of the community should turn out and hear the in- j structlve talks that will be given. (Jliatcmillll Breaks With Kaiser. I Washington, April 2s.-Onatomaln has broken off diplomatie relations | with Germany, lias banded the Ger I man minister his passports and can celled the exequaturs of Gorman' con suls there. Tho United States government was j notified of the break by Guatemalan 1 Minister Mendez, who issued a stnte , ment to-night saying the Guatemalan government's decision to sever rein-1 , lions was taken "on account of the j plots of tho Germans against the safety and independence not only of Guatemala, but of the wholo of Cen tral America." hies, recently reported, had reached 1 hem. ! The food situation in Germany, one ! American said, was "tight, but not serious." ! Captains, mutes, engineers and ' Giber officers sufficient to man 12 ? steamships, all from ?or way, were among the passengers These men said tliey had boo*l sent here by dif ferent companies to tnko over vessels bein" constructed in American ship .., ards. TH KKK MILLION M KN BEFORE Encl of War ls Uncle Sum's Probable Man-Power. Washington, April 30-The admin istration is preparing to undertake at once tho huge task of raising and training an tinny Of 1,000,000 mon this year and ail additional 1,000, 000 mon next year. President Wilson will issue a spe cial appeal for moro than SOO.ooo mon lo brins the regular anny and national guard up to their war strength. At the samo time the War Depart mont will prepare for the or ganization of Hie universal service of 500,000 men. which, it is hoped, will bo In thc training camps by August I. May Send Army to Europe. Tho administration is basing all of Its plans upon the assumption that tho war is likely to last three years longer and that it may be necessary for the United States to send 3,000, 000 troops to the European trenches eventually. The immediate effort will be to train an army and provide transports fora force of about 500, OO'l men next spring. lt is not impossible that an expe ditionary force of 50,000 men will bo sent to France before tho close of military operations this year. Col. Roosevelt is only ono of thousands of Americans bringing pressure to bear upon the administration to yield to this plea to unfurl the American flag on tho (Iring line this year as a token of the determination of tito United Stales to tight for tho preservation of democracy and as an inspiration to tho troops now standing the brunt of the fight. (len. Francis V. Greene believes that the American army should be raised and sent to Prance for train lug as fast as transports can be pro vided. Would Use National (inard. In the course of an interview the general was asked how he thought the men of thc new national guard could be used lo best advantage. "My answer." he said, "is by send in:; thom to Fiance to get their training there in the atmosphere of war and under Instruction from men who know from experience how war ls carried on In this year 1917. Use the German ship?, which have boen so promptly and wisely seized, or. if j these are ont of repair, commandeer our own sbiiis, to transport forthwith to a camp near Boulogne, in close j proximity lo Hie Belgian army, an infantry division of twelve regi ments, recruited to full strength (about 22,000 men in all), with the complement of machine guns which British or French Officers say ls now desirable. j .'Let each brigade consist of one regiment from Hie regular army and two regiments from the national guard, selected from those who have had not less than six months' service on the Mexican border. After a month's intensive training at Bou logne (more intensive than Platts burg) put this division alongside the Belgians and the British on the left of the long lino from Nleuport to Bel fort: lot their iilaecs be taken at the Boulogne camp by another division similarly organized, and so on. speed ing up as soon as possible to several divisions a month with artillery and all other arms of the service that can be effectively used, until the regular army and the national guard (730. 000 men) have all been used. By that time the new national army should be ready. We shall never bo a real factor In this war until our troops are In thc trenches." Argentina Remains Neutral. Buenos Aires. April 30.-Tho question of Argentina's attitude in the war was debated to-day in a stormy session nf tho National Con gress of Socialists, during which sev eral fist fights occurred. The Con gress rejected hy a vote, of 4,210 to 3,f>">7 the resolution submitted by the executive committee, setting forth that Germany's submarine me thods wore in violation of interna tional law and recommending the arming of ships, The Congress ad opted a declaration in favor of abso lute neutrality. j Will Keep You Well 1 g^^oW??jijM?,^W/iNjT^^gl go t a terrific I j^rjp^p^SjpnSMU*^* * Bick headache, $??f?Rvjn ffl 0&i*$?^'' patcd or havo ?Hf vc? ^ ?fl _uuil if f|ny nch or Psi l^lln firan8er KT lr??S?M liver ?vIlli^M Regll,ator will rut yaw in ! I ^- ROodahapo, It * lia purely I vegetable, preparation, non-alcoholic J and ucla pleasantly one] effectively. ? . Concord, N. lt., J?n. 17, 1PIT . I WAI lick ?Ix mcilhi l?il yesr ?nd tho lwt.-r Ll ? t i l ni? to K? to Morilla. I rot lome dr?nget J Liver lte|iiM<>r In Florida inri il did <no good. I tirotiptil four twin bom. with mo sud Hurt I ?tu (celine a grist dell belter. (Simd) Tl. J. Rowland Rolrt l>y nil (IriKtif ?ata-25c rt box Oronger ModiclnlCo., ChttUnocfft, Tenn. aaaannxxmunanaMimmiasMmisiM HOMESTEAD NOTICE. Stale of South Carolina, County of Ocoiieo. Fx Parto RODERT WILSON'. Petitioner. By W. O. While, Master. To Whom lt May Concern: (Mease Take Notice. That Robert Wilson has petitioned the undor I signed praying that two lots of land. I consisting of one-half acre and ono ? fourth acre, sit?ale ill the suburb of Seneca, s. c., which formerly be longed to loo Wilson, deceased, bo set on', appraised and exempted from certain debts under the homestead law; that his petition was filed in my omeo A j.rii ii, HU 7; that if any ono objects to said homestead ex emption same should be filed with mo within thirty days from dato of tho first advertisement of this notice W, O. WHITE, Master for Ocoiieo County, S. C. April 18, 1917. * 16-10 What About the Flies? Better begin now to keep them out. We have just received shipment of SCREEN DOORS AND WINDOWS. ALSO SCREEN WIRE, ALL SIZES. Let us fit you up before the Stock is broken. THE WEATHER Now calls for ICE. We have, in stock, nice assortment of & *** ICE BOXES, REFRIGERATORS AND ICE CREAM FREEZERS. Let us quote you prices on this line^ Ballenger Hardware and Furniture Co., (UNDERTAKERS) Seneca. - - - S. C. BUGGIES, WAGONS, HARNESS, Doors, Sash and Blinds. PAINTS AND OILS. Complete Stock of GENERAL MERCHANDISE W. P. Nimmons, Seneca, S. C. Bigger Business. Bigger Stock. We have just unloaded one car of NAILS and BARB WIRE, one car of WINDOWS and DOORS. Our 3 warehouses are packed to their capacity. These goods were brought sometime back, and we can without a doubt save you some good MONEY, FIELD FENCE, POULTRY FENCE, BARB WIRE, BLACKSMITH TOOLS, PLOW SHAPES, OLIVER PLOWS and REPAIRS, CHATTANOOGA PLOWS and REPAIRS, LYNCHBURGH, AVERY REPAIRS. LIME CEMENT j* PAINTS Send us list of Material Wanted and let us quote you. Matheson Hardware Go,, Westminster, S. C.