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T \ ' J # i S - >' -■ v j V . • \i / ■ . ■ 4 * j/i •// •' 7 I y ■■ A ; 7 V SIXTY SIXTH YEAR X- BSTABLISHBD 1852 SIXTY SIXTH YEAR VOL.-LXVI. -V BARNWELL, S. C., TIIL’BSDAY, JII. V i'i. 191s ■c ■\- NO. 40. /• THE WAR SUMMARY - * 1 . , ' ‘: ' i t ■ -v - ■ . • - . : * The Lon* Line Seems to Have Turn- ed, and th ? Allies Ha ve Their In- * - . ning-TheCwf Executed. ] _ / ’ * n ' • ' ' •... • ■)*■'. -There is-an old saw to the ef? feet, v.lt is a iong lane that has no turning.” Since the German drives began on Jdarch 21st, it has been a German Jane. This _\veek however has given the Al lies their inning. The reasons for the German triumphs were not (in German superiority in anything save numerical supe riority. The Russian collapse enabled them.tq,. withdraw their best troops from the* long Ru'—, sian front. •They. al*o came into possession of the great bulk of- Rus-ian cannon and Other mu- - jiitions of war. I n the I talian disaster last fall tjiev also ac- « * , / quired a large number of cAu- oott. These two factors gave them great superiority in both men-and cannon over tin* Allies. The hope of the Allies was to ! jAmerican lines these were borne back a few ntUes, when, contrary to German expectations a coun ter attack was begun by the Americans before the German attack was. sj ant. The conseti quence Was a complete surprise for the Germans. They were driven beyond their former lines. This served to check the whole German offensive 1 . """ A salient is in the form of a Wuut wedge. The Germ.life'were driving.such a wedge with its point at Chatcuu-Theirrv, and the Americans, on its western side. Now considerable German forced-bad crossed the riper Marnk These had Americans in front of them and a river benind them. They couldn't advance for tluT Artiencaiis are barring their way. They Could not re treat for the river with its few pontoon bridges 1 were unable to accommodate the large number iuul were under artillery tire. General Foeli gt asped the situation and held them in i*. * yf.Vi). * t hold their lines until" the An iei - 1 that uncomfortable position . m - f U m lean.- coujd-bring back the bal ance to an equn’.itv. Tho (iermans fought gainst rtime, bul made -pmidid use of. their opportunities. At this point it witl’iiotilT u t to acfcnqwT- edge the fact that threeof the live German olfi 1'1-e- of this year were •German vi, tone* although they fell far short of Avhat tjiev 'wee aimed to accomplish. They resulted in the Jo-- of large areas f territory that the Allies could til ado.rd to lose. Tliey also re sulted i:i the 1 o - s of huge stores of war. We congratulated olir- -elvt~s_th:U they ought have been far-worse. For weeks on end the higher military authorities were .high up <>i the anxious bench. All that -avod them in certain trying moments was that the German high command couldn’t grasp the fruits of liis victory. Such a time was when General Carey held for six days with a scratch force an eight mile gap between the Allied ar mies. German machinery could, go so far and no farther. It could break l-hrough the stongest Al lied defenses, but ultimately be came too weak to break down the weakest troop* opposed to them.- The superiority of Allied.lead ership-was seen in the wresting from German hands the richest fruits of victory when they were ’jjus-t within their grasp. In no case have they won more than tliey paid for iff German lives. The tide turned with the splen did Italian ..victory of a few weeks ago. This showed! two things. First tile Austrians were losing their mora’leor tight- ing spirit. It alR> showed a fajFT brighter fact,.that the Italian array had fully recovered from its defeat and was - abundantly able to care for itsel? without French assistance. Aupther fac tor was that the American forces, especially-its regular army traits, had! 7 acquired such proficiency that they could take over certain -front line sectors. In former Tmalf encounters they have been testefhmd showed their value. A ii tle.c/vei i week ago the Genuai s Mai d i their fifth o’- fensiye.. Tiny knew that the Allied lines in front- .of the sal- ienG gained by former oflens.es Were so strongly'field- as to indi cate the extreimvv high prices to ho i aid - for succe*-es there. Their plain in to gain a- much tori it nw on 'which to driv<//a good peace bargain this yvmte'r. Sq' they selected fltyTen itory- sotith of their 1 ato*jt<di iveas. tV^eir aim. Hut tp t!/<7r *urpi f i-e their i ga ifs. \v<*rd cx-fi't nicl v -,iii;i 11.' •■From* the jclci L&ut of surp while lie drove in on the West ern side of the salient. Now .if either-side of a salient .gives way tho»owh<> are within pocket must be withdrawn at once or else there.Jigreat danger of a panic .stricken rout. The Allied armies have erushe'd ill this side of the salient for twenty-live miles and with a depth of perhaps six or seven miles a* an average.- The result should not be view ed with an overconfidence. This i~ distinctly a triumph of Allied strategv. -General Foeli saw his climicA, and drove.it home. It i* a German hope of 'an addi tional victory, turned’into an Al lied victory. We have for so^oug wanted to shout for an Allied victory. -We have our opportu nity. It supers that Allietl leail- ership believes that the- time is ^far passed for defensive warfare, and that the initiative has pass ed to us from the Germans. Fi lial triumph is still a long way off; but last week makes us be lieve we are oil the straight road tp it. It shows us that our sol diers have in them the materials of the best army in the world.' The latest press dispatches show that a German submarine lias appeared otT the Massachu setts coast and shelled the shore after sinking a string of barges and setting fire to the tug which had tliem in tow. The l T . S. naval ship San Diego was sunk ju-t otr the sli p route to New York, but it is unknown wheth er the cause was a mine or a sub marine. Russia .is still on the front page of the news. The Czar was executed lasl week by a lo cal body .of Bblsheriki. Tilts was most unfortunate, as he was an inoffensive cteature and by no means responsible for the Russian situation. Report's credit" him "'with being hardly more than a good natured, but extremely weak minded, man who became a ready tool in the hands of unscrupulous advisers'. The news also contain the fact that Quentin Roosevelt met-liis death lastTweek in an airplane combat iii France. The Roose velt family had thi^e sons in the lighting zone. Some weeks ago Captain Archie Roosevelt was so seriously wounded that lie will require eight months more to recuperate. The latest news' i- tliat, Major. Theodore Roose velt was wounded thi* week aud i- in a Paris hospital.' Mean time thV Kaiser has six soil's which, liayn't received a >iiu ’ -Cratch. , A / A NEW DRIVE. \ 1 Just as the brave American boys with, their allies at -/the front in France hav'e launched a great < r.ve against tfie linns, so havcT-ifie members of tTte army rWnnttrrg. party for this district started ji drive ,fqr re cruits which will continue in full fort e until some night fall in Berlin.- finds an American ploughboy bugler blowing taps in camp in tliat city an r d every man, woman and child of the a 11 ied »a t idn s a re re joici ng over the vtctOTV which u’lea ns -peace and""democracy for the world.' The xtfiye- G liece-s; r\\ for the Soutli (’arolina- and x Stiuth- eastern Georgia recruiting tli-- triot, has fallen short of its junta of voluntary enlistmem8 an.,1 every possible effort will lre'Tnade to induce the civilians no,v. at home who arc able to enlist to re-jiohd t*7the summons of tiieir manhood and stand by idle while, tlieir fellows on the blood-red battlefields of France are struggling against Prussia- anism ami risking tlieir lives that, the world jnight be made a decent phtetr to Rye in. Through _m♦ whims iea 1. 1 desire- to boost the volunteer military service is this drive-* being made, according to the Reeui- BAIDOCK PICNIC A SUCCESS. Day Enlivened by Spirited Address from the/Vour vtion^res sional Address. J The BaMoc.pictii?,■ uudp^ the management of Messrs. J. Royal Snell ing and .J M Randitill Kellv. was a splendid success and was ...... 55 jam largely attended, not only by tlierf rh.. qieople throughout" Barnwell RED CROSS DEPARTMENT. pPhe Barnwell Red "Tros* chapter, extends it’s sideere thanks to the Messrs, Lemon Buosv for. giving it a home since last fall in the upper end of tl/b second floor of tbeir^tore, CTi to. the inconvenience of county but by people from maipV other ’cotuiti.es, sotpe of wh<>m‘ Gmtrt of~ Ldgctii-'id / 'A. W. Knight, Editor of the Bamberg Herald, and others. A special invitation was ex tended by the committee to the Candidate^ for Congress to be present and address the people, and after waiting 'until twelve o’clock for Hum Jus. F. Rvrue,s tho meetMig was-called jto order hy Ool. R. .M Mixson, \jvho j ire- sided and called upon I\Cv. Hen- ting (illicer. Col.°B. II. Cheever. fd*Tson, of Aiken, to invoke di- the firm, we fear. Like all* good works this has borne good fruit in having a large --and more ck'sirabfe home-given the said Unit this was their lirst/Fisii j R e d*Gross bv the stockholders to Bakloc. Among those out of | a „d renters of the Masouie Hall, the counts attending \\ere : ( ol. which is being cleaned and D. S. IIelideiM)iiyMa\oi -Rdin mad,* ready for the chapter t<» Mosely, Cupt.rlJZP/ Dyeing.- nioV( , ifi tliis week. This wid 1m room f<»r every F in tlje town !ey, Rev. Mr, Henderson, ami a.iicl county.. It is yifur roo'm Lieut. «Bush, ot Ailceu ; Sheriil j am | the ladies who will be ap- be II id Mtisely, (-ajitr* If.. P. Dyclics,- niov-e in this week Mess as. L. W Weeks, Tiljinan t i m reception rod Holley, MillyMdolley, John Ilol- Cross worker ley, Rev. Mr,Henderson, and a „d county. It i Lieut. Jhish, of Aixen ; Sheriil j an( j the ladies who win he R. I). Swearingen,; Supt. R-. N . j pointed-to keep it open, will Broad\\ ater-atid Dept.-C lerk ot <ri a ,| to welcome cverv one j but the appeal.is sounded so that every able-bodied man not within the draft ages may have the fact impressed upon li is mind that this is his war and his country as much as it is the war ot registered men and that his* duty,--although lie will net be forced to do i , is to enter the service a d help ifi the same maimer as the men of the national armv are doing. From the' Headquarters Recruiting Station for this dis trict in '-Savannah comes the following announcements rela tive to - the branches of service appealing to the young man hood of this section to. not allow this call to pass unheeded : The engineer corpse wants thousands of woodsmen} saw mill men, railroad men and men in every capacity from bosses to b borers to convert forests into lumber and mater ials. The aviation section needs men with trades and laborer. Ttie signal Corps must have cable, telegraph and , radio operators, wiremen, electrician, piiotoraphers, and - others. The infantry, the /largest ‘branch of the service,, needs ahlebodied men, as does the coast artillery in which they may take instruc tion at specialists’ schools which will qualify them as electricians, et-gineers^maehinitts gas engine operators, draftsmens other technical trades. The field artillery, cavalry, medical depayment r quartermaster corps andjreterniaijy 'corps are - all open for enlistment; and the ordinance cor^ps offers special inducements to aqcountaifts auto experts, repair men, bakers, butchers, blacksmiths, bookbinders, clerks, bookeepers, carpenters, jewelers, typists, printers, vulcanizers and many other pos!t 6:\s. 4 —— ’ Regulations' have just been changed so that-tlie ifniniinum viiTe bie*sing k , after which in hi uHuil eloquent and stately man ner J he introduced the»'Spt%tk(‘rs, the i first being. Him..Theodore Crust, qf AikeiL who delivered a very excellent speech. He stated that iioneraut a one hundred j>ei cent American should be elected to office and that-Mr. Byrnes had opposed the* declaration of war or tile-selective dra t system/as recomiuended by.the Fresidcn.t, and for this reason the people, shoujd ret ire \ him. Mr. Croft said that he was a member of the local exemption board of Ai ken county and was in rhomugh i nuke them the hi see • re'simply coming into what belongs to them. We sincerely hope the opening of this nmv home will put new life and en thusiasm into our lumre chap ter/ . Tiie Auxiliaries are fine, have tho J chapter to senil off mo-t credit able Udxes to headquarters. It was our intention to nut into this article a. complete list of everything sent in bv tin* differ-' cut Auxiliaries, birt some chang es have been made*in the work which render if impossible for. iis to get the information need- [ s ) lOU ia be organicallv and inti ed. We will apply to the Anxil- • niato l v . connected with the-ag- laries themselves if necessary to | r i cu - t : ira i extension'* service get this written tqr for next | in (>ac |, st ato.' so that weeks paper, as we are anxious that the work lie put oil record. There is a this work FARM HELP SPECIALISTS MEET. Birmingham, -Ala.— Farm help specialists from the Soutli- ern Stntesrdn the IVepartim-ntof Agriculturc's liarvest con ference held in . Birmingham, adopted tile foUowing as an out line of the campaign : to !>e waged ii lit i 11 all the South ’sbig Cotton aifd food-i-rops have l>een gathcreu: ;. \ .Goopefiitiou betweeii farmers- and city people, tube brought- about through coordination of all agencies furni-lViug points of contact, with crop and othpr agricultural programs to be worked* out a4 the combined re- ; suits of comniunitv effort^ Lse «»f all feasible F*bor' sav ing devices and iiiipfbved farm machinery. . A Iutellig Mit direction- and con- servatiousofyfeiior to eliminate waste and maintain highest ef ficiency. . Rearrangement, so far a* p vi sible, of the svstsin of fann management as to keep datxi'r employed |»rofitid)lv tin* while yrar, » * RrovisioilTof bct+cr living con- .Tilions on farm to make workers .more efficient and better satis fied. I Cooperation in exchange <f labpr and implements b 'tween farmers. Recognition that the work of the farm labor specialist i^ pri marily aii extension effort and /' M.* now oixm for enlistiTrents," f ccor<1 "'hh the President; tlia> lie had,served one session in con gress, having filled his father’s unexpired term. Mr. Croft re ceived cheers during and at the conclusion of his speech. The chairman next introduced Col. Nathan George Evans,who displayed great eloquence and oratory in the delivery of his splendid address and stated that he ooukl not make the speecty he intended to make because"of the absence of Mr. Byrnes. Mr. Evans said he bad nteyeliow strea.k .down his back, that be belonged to generations of dem- crats‘whose loyalty had mjver been questioned, that Edgefield county started^ the Red Shirt movement ancHie asra little-boy wore one, ajut tliisjband of Red Shirt'fPunad.e "South Carolina other .branches of the oxton- may lie brought of interest in j c los e cooperation with farm here in town that hlU()r WO rk. causes great concern to those of I qq 1(> f rtrm fipfp specialists also’ us who realize .so keenly w hat adopted a resolution, urging the t"g, ne.ccessary work this is. imjxiftance of stabilizing farm labor by providing better house* and more privileges for tenants How it belongs to every woman, not a part of us, bat all of us. Headquarters in Atlanta has laborers, and calling for appointed.. Mrs. L. J 1 . Bonner, jr>nn«iJAr*itinns nf definite nlftfiA supervisor of Surgical Dressings lor Barnwell county. No class can be formed without her con sent, this she is eager to fcive, under the proper conditions. Mrs. Bonner has all the, infor- considerations of definite plans to eliminate losses caused by shifting workers. The specialists have returned to their states to resume their work of helping southern farm ers meet the conditions caused matiou needed and will be glad j } y transfer of tens 6f thou to uo all in her powe to push i s^ndsof men from the farms to this most neccessary woi’k. A army and war industries. It is 'noted surgeon in the nrm| has expected that they will center •said : When in a battle line a their efforts, this year at least, man is shot, he can live without a shir^/#'sweater or socks, but lie must have a doctor, surgical dics-siilg and drugs to live artid -get woll,” and iwe add, to go to safe for w'bite supj*emacy and a -pure democracy, which she bad enjoyed ever,since. Mr. Evans was applauded repeatedly during and at'the conclusion of his speech. -Hon. Jas. F. Byrnes appeared upon the ^cene and was greeted with an uproar of applause and voices throughout the, large crowd crying, Byrnes .! Byrnes ! Byrnes ! let us hear what you have to say abput this. Col. Mixson then explained that, tak the firing line,.-, for that is what they all do if they can. Let us sefid them what tliey need and do it -at once. We see that head quarters urges the formation of a ,unit among the colored pF^ople in Ban;well."This \s a splendid field for work and one that will yield ten fold il proporly hand, led. These people are ready 'and anxious to help out in any way. Tliey are just waiting for direc tions and information. It is their right to have a unite, they have given tlieir men, their money and will give their werk, lie, and said that all he had pub- ing them alphabetically, Byrnes ! lisbi d in the papers was the would have been first had lie; truth and lie would prove it, height required, for enlistim ht been there, *o t will now pre-1 and for a few moments there in the regular .army' is oul) r sent to you Hon. Jas. F, Byrnes was a commotion, but it was MISS ANNE JACKSON' GRADUATES Invitations,iiave lH'efi recuiv- ! ved to the graduation cx.erci*c» of (hC r Moody Hibk* 1 nst it lit/" held in the c> sixty inches live feet ami the lnininum weight is now, only lib pounds. Eidi-tnient iXonly tor the duration of tin* war, n - "i ’ . - . - - • 's ie 'attention of students is called, to tlie fact that *chuols are free^ in the ariiiy ;ind -that knowledge.-, gaimfl *ii'i them, i who will address ymif. Amid quo ted. Mr. ■ livrn.es left th on mobilizing able bodied city men to help out. at usual wages^ at periods of the greatest need for farm labor. Prof. G. I. Christie, who taught in the Alabama agricul- turail school at Auburn, and who as assistant to the Secre- '* “I - . r A / ' ‘ " (Continued on S- coni Pag**. ] \ Charleston has a colore<l Red Cro«s chapter, doing fine work, making their own money and sending in large numtiers pf garments made in the approved way. Mrs, W, H. Duncai Pre^s Correspondent for /Barn well R. C. Chapter. There appeared^ in tlie col umns of the Seidiuel issue of the *20th ultimo/tfie following The surgical dressing class of Black en invitation % >u. ajqilaiise lie arose and i|i an easv 11 o ,\v of "la linage, sJuiuIated bv an eager atul .ahxiou- tliroug, lx* begaji bvviut linirig hi> a<:tiofi* andJioxNvIie bail voied nn .rgrv qiie-Uiiii that ^ <di ir_n «’/; i ll th;*!- iaiid 'i;i each instance citaR. thi'v g;lined netliiiig. Tliei , , .i/f,.av the AiliMfr,«,r- V ^'i'raR) to b ■ . n,\J (. Bbeinfe., Soil. ,la\M M ^ od /.°g le .Al»4i«o.H bw.tlav. dnuug the, fir-.t ot la*t • - - Avimk-tl n *y si..w-lvTnmt surely \ 7moag’theTTfaTluate/’Ts drove tluvr strangle lines abmu" ; \, ne Moore Jackson, ni'eTe of ibis city. \Vbeii they struck the Mrs. R.C. KiFklaml , * coiiph d with the practical-ex-j lenged tie periem-e, will ville the Barn welt ladies th attend a demonstration of their. Ayork on , Fridav afternoon - . Several au- tand at tlie conclusion ot hi* tonTobifi-* went iovpr filled with * I (Cecil. ' • 1 t A • -X •Tile chairmafi then introdm e<l Mr. G.- L.-Toole, of Aike ii. who called upon Mr. Byrndsfto *(aird a.uxLuuke !ii- iiL/dicim*apd riot to Full a wav like a coward, , — • » 11 l!l !l W h*» ?&* liardlv -along - injure 1 von ed/ica— btU i • dilb*.lvn: "v to err-*—VrO'-f—\\:\ vi tionai lines, There are y;et men am in tliis district who 1 w»dl- ..ph v - ui..xolun ar ny. and it i§ tht i*ecrtiiting t h lb tv Mr booh read *i»liii* extract.- from the < on q-eJ-liohal lhror«l VLr-Bvrlr"oa--o-hm *mF-tit> nTT lortv miii aft act., lie -:i .< I > iV.-- bile cr j UliL 4he U.eiO poakntg ,ii:. . 'iim;v bara - ■ i/ 11-e- JTe—o • rg%*>o • * **•<*!■ ge- 4-u—-FipfHO'4 liwin Ma/ L. / , Cpj ha vin g hrdn-la'rrd^itd—1 ! rnt yht tvgvrf v fTa vT Bvrm-s- Irml tolegraifije l. jL'fivd / ' - * OH'.I'JC ko t ir t M-r. I. :L!pvd m * Rvii* npinber- of the Red Cro s. They know how Bl.’ii'kville usually a — doe*; thing*. They expected to li: d th : - well done, but were stir« pri-c.b tv* find" twentv-o'ne tnem- tte*. and ’'two hundred (ini-lied dre-Ti ng *.' *bhe woi k. \vas 1 .eau- tifnlly done. OVti'Tf IJii' lad ids; in their 4, and eafr*v ; \Vere an Barnwell i-ountr ■ r-«7 be jiroml oNthe 1 >lack vi 11 ,.p ^*nrg'c 11 dressing aprons in*(drat on. ha-..a rigfft rag in svm- it i§ the -1 opo < the ed hhi| iq- advertising ui tlie'p t- ‘ Mr. Bvrnc>, wifTi h i otilcials that tin y pers a- inuch a- tlie Taulac o«n- p ithy with the >eu F*>ine rpv. Mr. T«*e»Ie a ;ive this the Mr. Toole was ah*. ap^ltudeiE w ill sec their duty anti do it. — This should have remf two thou’-ami fi ,i*hed dressings i^- *tead of two hundred. • r - \x