Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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BABNWELL SENTINEL, BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA PAOK THfttS ♦. «»>*#♦*«., i, <, »flS UidiZ&k Necessary for Sake of Economic x Welfare and Independence. 7 &yZ%&y///i ’ V r ‘ . ■ T ARMORED TRAIN IN SOMME DISTRICT Heavily armored trains are bolpg^nsed lu tin? big battle now raging in the sloTtimF district": ITrinvy Held and long-mng^gTrrre are mounted on these trains and have proved their wgrlli.^iu, brittle. The picture shows a train In action somewhere on the Somme. v • SPEND MILLIONS TO SPREAD LIES and a disaster which overwhelmed that command would have Its effect in all parts of the nation, and not in some j particular section. -r- I “This is the source of all those mys terious rutnors to- the effect that this or that'regiment in the/ iTkl/bow di vision has been annihilated. "South America at this moment Is swamped with 9 pamphlet entitled ‘El Vain pi re del Cotatlrieiite,’ which Is per haps the most vicious attack nil, a na tion/ ever jmbilshed, and the nation in this,instance is the United States. 1^‘Some months ago there was sent to I South Amerfcu for circulation a little officially prepared document entitled ‘Why America Went to War.' /Instead , of making friends for ns. the book lost them, and un investigation was or dered.* .This investigation led to the discovery that the Gernfans had got hold of tire genuine docunienfs. after j which they proceeded to substitute an ; edition <lf their n\yn. The spurious; edition .was the same its the Ameri can, with the* exception that the Ger mans inserted a preface. “The preface was '-'cleverly' written. Germans Circulate * “Whispering Propaganda,” Including At- * v tacks on President. IS DIRECTED FROM SPAIN Mexico and South America Flooded With Book Which; Likens United CaroHuas and Georgia, where the States to Vampire—Lies About mountaineers have been led to believe and to the ordinary/.person read aa if it had been prepared by our govern ment. * Hut the statements tiTTW pref ace djid not bear out the facts in the rest-of the book and so Instead of be lieving what we said thousands of peo ple who read the book eanre to the conclusion that tye were lying.. Proper steps are now being taken to counter act this wprk of the enemy propa ganda. \ ' I "In tlie South American countries i the Germans have* bought "up nutner- heing whispered over the . country—"} ous newspapers, which they employ to and we are the victims of 'what Is i spread their_ propagaiylu.”. known as the ‘whispering propaganda’ J . —— r —is that this Is a war of the wealthy classes, and that the president plunged the country into the struggle to ‘save thy, millionaires’ ns well as to snfe- gtrnrd Wmerlcu’s hnge doa risTind creiT its to”the allied countries. "We have even established the fact that the propaganda has penetrated Into tlie mountain fastnesses of the J I T irst photograph of the new Lewis machine gun for’use on Amerlean airplanes. 12—American marines con centrated oh the west front for advance to the firing line. 3—A sturdy little British soldier bringing In his private llun prisoner. ' ’ - • \ . DISMOUNTED BRITISH CAVALRY HURRY TO HELP INFANTRY Rainbow Drytstemr llint another Clvtl war Is imibinenLT Lies About Rainbow Division. Washington.—The . German propa- ; “The disaster story lias also been j ganda was never busier in the United worked to a finish ^n all parts of the country. The Rainbow division has- been picked out as the victim of this phase of the propaganda, because It represents all sections of the country, ! States than at the present time. This fact lias been established by ageiits of the government, and energetic meth ods to combat this sinister peril ure now being carried out. Not only* is the propaganda, which is operated from headquarters' in Spain, working day and night to cause trouble In this country, but it Is also working^Just as hard to discredit the government of the United States In Mexico and Cen tral and South America, where there. War Expense^ Increase Each has recehtly appeared for free distri bution a book entitled “El VnmpTro del Continente," file vampire of tlie conti nent referred to being this country. An official of the federal govern ment, one of whose duties brings him Into Contact with German propagan da in alt parts of tin? world, said the Germans were spending hundreds of mil-lions of dollars to-spread discon tent. 1 particularly amortg the- unedu cated people in all the countries of the allies, their activities Including among other schemes a concerted and vicious, attack, wherever possible, on Presi dent Wilson, Premier Lloyd GCorge FATHER OF VICTIM ON ’ THE CYCLOPS ENLISTS Birmingham, Ala.—“My name Is J.-P. Baggs. I am' the father of II. T. Baggs, who was one of the hoys lost on the Cyclops. I want to do something for my country." The speaker, a heavy- set man wearing spectacles, stood before one of the draft hoardsias he spoke. An investi gation revealed that he was 8 skilled mechanic. He was sen/ to one of the United States ship yards. , Italy Spending 5 Millions Daily .iritian cavalry has played a big port In stopping the rush of the Huns In Picardy. This photograph shows a • LPurty of cavalrymen dismounting and going to the uhj of a hurd-pressed infantry regiment. Month and Prices of Food Soar. FRENCH AND AMERICANS IN GRENADE ATTACK! their bravery-rewarded cuinted that nt present the war is s and other high, bfficials of the ullled PROFITEERS GO UNCHECKED Menace.to Morale of Nation Seen If . Speculators Are Not Curbed Soos —Revelations of Press Cause Sensation. -< . Rome.—Tlie $ 1411,000.000 governments. . Worked for Years on Scheme - We"know that for years before the outbreak of war in l‘Jl-4 the Uerhpin government worked ' to perftfer Its? propaganda arm. In Germany They called into tlie service of tlie state for this purpose the great psychologists of the country, the big newspaper iueu, the university professors, trade ex perts, and even novelists and drama tists. Agents Were sent inti* every country in tlu? world to study the people, until the government tiles in Berlin contained complete data ’re- war Is a month or, in round numbers, \iihout $**,000,000 a day. In { estimating the cost of the war tlie ex penditure Incurred during the ten months of Italy’s neutrality for war preparations as well _as the money M*ent during tlie 33 months of war up to the end of last February are taken into account. The estiliu.te is only ap proximate. because besides the money actually spent for war expenditure payments made by the war office and the, admiralty /or extraordinary ex penditure due to the war are included in the calculation. ' , (in the other hand the increased ex- mii ruuijMrur uaiu ir , ^ •cullfrlties and suseoptt-r^mture and the payments made by costing Italy $10,000,000 n day. So far no serious, attempt has been mude to improve the food situation In Italy, which is gradually getting worse, not so much on account of acute short- age.usUo disorganized distribution and artificial Increase of prices due to the Speculations of middlemen and to ex tensive hoarding. Sensational revela tions are being made in the local press about the lit/fits of middlemen espe cially In respect to animal food. For instance, it has been ascertained that costing Italy ,the lamb market has been cornered by middlemen, who are buying lambs at 12 cents a pound arid selling them to retailors at over $1.00, with the re sult that the market prices of lamb have risen to almost $2 a pound. Profiteers Unchecked. Strangely enough no action has yet been taken against the denounced mid dlemen while hoarding is being re pressed In ii half-hearted way, despite the fact that all the shops and restau rants raided afforded convincing proof that cheese, fats and foodstuffs of every description are being hidden and Sold at fancy prices. A few arrests ha ve- been "made, but the measures so far adopted are Inadequate to improve existing conditions. As the patience of citizens Is well- gardiug tlie pti_u..aum., <>•... , hllities of all people with whom Ger- ! other government departments during many had reason to anticipate a Ru * Period from August 1, 1fil4, to Feb c l aK j, . • ruary. 28, 1U18, are not taken into ac “Up to a few months ago the propa, ! c ‘ ount - ()n1 . v the expenditure of the nigh exhausted, it is feared that popu- gnnda concentrated against England in and of- muntlons la .added together In order to afford an Indication of how j three ministries of war, of the navyi ,ftf dissatisfaction and resentment will an effort •tols’oMrto that nation. Every neutral country in the World wus*flood- 1 ed with fnlsC Information regarditig.jJ.U 1 ^ 1 The war Is costing Italy. ^i?hglan : (f riffd her purposes in the war. I. Coat of Warfare Grows. “Now the attifck is switching from England to the. United^StUt’eL-I Every. lead to disorders and thus weaken nn-i tlonal Resistance at a time when the situation Is apt to become serious ow- j trig to an ^impending offensive oh the The total extending over a period of Itn,,nn f ™ nt " Rnd '<* aI and energetic two years' iind nine niont-hs when di- In f. nsun ‘ s nre therefore Imperative.- possible effort to poison tlie minds of vlded into, shorter periods reveals that the people In certain parts of the-coun- j w ar expenditure Is increasing. Thus, try is being resorted to, the effort be- ; while during the first quarter of Italy’s lng especLallyjyicjons in those purls nf i intervention,—deorn^Time to August, Thompson of this city claim the first the country where , the percentage .of 1015. $07,400,000 were spent every Liberty child. She was born April 20, Illiteracy Is greatest^and among the month, during the last quarter, from Liberty dtiy, and they named her IJb- i negroes. The special story which is December^ 1817, to February, 1918, the erty. She weighed nine rounds, too. Frenchmen and Americans are advancing across No Man’s Land, some where on the front in .France. They are moving cautiously, ready to use the grenades they nre carrying in the sacks slung over their shoulders. U. S. ENGINEERS EXTEND TRENCH LINES General Gnubher of the French army decorating nn American officer and an \ merlonn soldier for bravery In a’ re cent bombardment. ACTRESS HELD AS A SPY Nine Pounds of Liberty. Chicago.—Dr. and Mrs. W. Moore RUSE MORE SHEEP / 8teady Decline Is Shown In the In dustry in United States in Re cent Years. Washington.—The sheep Industry In the United States must either^ adjust Itseif to the changed economic con ditions of this day- or Continue tfie Recline which-has been Its portion In years past. Such Is the coneim' reached In a report Issued by the sheep and wool. industry by the committee on statistics and standards of the Chamber of Commerce of the United -States. The "principal remedies suggested In the report to arrest the present steady * decline In our production of sheep are, flrat, the use for sheep grazing of the agriculturally worthless and cheap cut-over timber lands of the North Northwest and South; second, the more general and systematic raising of sheep on farms, where sheep rais ing has been hitherto neglected large ly because of frontier competition; and third, continued use of the great ranges u£ the West to their full capac ity. It can 1h* done. It Is a question of education. - - In UHX) we had In the United Stntes .80 sheep per eanlta. I/i 1017, the fig ure dropped to .40 per capita. In 1800 we produced 4.20 pounds of wool per capita. .In 1017 only 2.72 pounds per bapita. * * “ % We Import pow 50 per cent of our wool consumption. We ought _tq pro- MEMORIAL TO CARRIE NATION Woman's Christian Temperance Union Will Erect Drinking Fountain „ at Wichita. - / ' WlMiltn. Kjiil—The Kansas Weiip-j an’s Christian Temperance union will erect a drinking fountain here ner.j the Union station as a memorial to the lute Currie Nation. The State asso ciation has voted .$1,000 to be devoted to that purpose. The city commissioners have agreed to accept the fountain in tlie name of the city, and to maintain the water supply. It was in this city that Mrs. . . —- - Nation-' begarr her nation-wide cam- 'liK-e that at home.; nnd we cap If «e M | gn of M |o, jn }M „ ” Hi. n . fc 1 ■ Sheep Increase rapidly—from 50 to 100 pbr cent annually as coriipared with the number of ewes. There-Is every reason, In the opin ion of the committees, why, for -the sake of our economD’ welfare and in dependence, we should act .on the fact that we can raise enough sheep If we known persons entered" the whoo] and wlU, and reap advantage and profit i destroyed 1 all tba German text b$oka la in ao doing. t ^ ’ -' - ’ ■ er ~ German Books Destroyed. Shell I^ike, WIs.—- Although the school hoard refused to hholish the teaching of German In the High school; classes In that atudy may have to be abandoned temporarily' at least, as;un- I ’Vi J i I f ' ', / - - H. ^ y<. Alneiiva-n engineers ,ir«- doing splendid unrk In extending snd perfecting ’lie trench system In the American sector In France. Demolished walls and mined buildings ire considered especially valuably fgr the establishment of ditemiedlate. depots and i>o»t8._ This American engineer Is converting a tun- del Into a post Command by the quick methods known to *nny constructors. j Mile. Suzy Depsy, one of the mosg^ TieautlFul women on the Parisian sttige. Is now being held In France as a spy. She Is formally charged with maintain ing relations with the enemy. Her hus* k hand, Emil Guilder, former manaircr of the American prize fighter, Sam Me- | Yey, is also- under arrest on an espion age charge. Mile. Depsy became noted for her beauty while playing minor rules at the Theatre Sarah Bernhardt In Paris. t