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BARRWELL, S. C„ THURSDAY, JANUARY 1«, 1J19
MAJ3R JAMES A. WILLIS.
A“*~BaTi>weir County Man Write*
Friai France an Interesting
. a: id Instructive Letter.
(.Con* mued from la.'*! week.)
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-On. A live Survive with Ameri-
. uan Expeditionary Forces, A.
V. O. 7'J1, December 10. Gnui-
ce^-sur-Ouree, France.
M’ Prank H. Huggins Barn
well. S. C., Dear Frank :
On the morning of November
l^th, between 10 and 11 o’clock,
I was directed to take my batta
lion and occupy a line then held
by a battalion of the 324 Infan
try, which had been badly shot
up and to hold that position un
til further orders. The position
was located on the map and I
was told to get there as soon as
possible. At 11 o’clock we start
ed through the town of Haudi-
mont on the Verdtm-Metz road
in the direction of Manheullea.
The men k were marching in
column of two's and we had not
gone 100 yards before a shell
landed near the head of the
column, followed in a'very few
seconds by another. We had to
go down that road for about two
miles, then across an open field
about a mile further before we
could deploy. An enemy plane
flew high over us directing the
shots, and believe me, they came
to us thick and fast. It was one
i
continuous roar of bursting
shells. Someone suggested that
we get off the road and march on
the side, but I noticed that prac
tically all the shells were falling
at the edge of the road and tKe
old shell holes were on the edge,
TO INSPIRE OTHERS.
Monument.
OWEHS-WALKER.,
Miss Etolia Iona Oweps and
Mr. Ryer^ou B. Walker were qui- , , ,
etly married in AikearfnWednes- John L,fe SUnd ‘
day, January. 8th, 1919 by
Rev. H. R.' Chapman.
The bride is a daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. S. S. Owens, oT
Haw throne, S. 0. and is one
of the most attractive young
ladies in her community.
The groom is from Williston,
S, G. and is a young' man of
sterling worth. ,
/LA large number of rdlBbres
and" friends of the conti^Hng
parties were present to wtTne.ss
the ceremony, and to wish
them a long and happy life
After the ceremony
happy couple returned to the
bride’s home, where a most
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(The State.)
Please permit me to say just
a word concerning the life of a
coworker on The State, John S.
Reynolds.
It was never my good for
tune to meet Mr. Reynolds but
once. Our acquaintance, how
ever, because of his position in
the home office of The State
and mine as its Washington
t h e ! correspondent brought us into
intimate association which cov
ered the years during which he
.N ATROCITIES
COMMITTED BY TURKS
sumptious^ feaat
Later they left
where they will
future heiMU.
Mr. Walker has the congrat-
waa served, was connected with that paper.
On many occasions it was-nec
essary for us to exchange let
ters regarding different mat
ters which arose from time to
for Williston
make their
ulntions of his many friend^ time regarding the Washington
for winning such an attractive
young womaq f jr his lift com
panion.
correspondence and his letters
were always full of the kindly
and gentlemanly spirit which
filled his manly form.
Whenever something would
. . , . , . , go Jamiss at the Washington
squad in. and in a few minutes _ end V a „ d it was necessary for
left and blow, a
ground that you
hole in the j
could put a
another Shell will fall a few
yards in front of him! There
seemed to be some unseen hand
guiding us and protecting us.
During the hardest part of tfie
fighting an enemy- plane flew
just over us and something told
me that he was coming back; I
told the men who were near me,
the home office of The State to
secure information bearing up
on the subject, it was frequent
ly my pleasure to hear from
Mr. Reynolds and I much en
joyed the receipt of his letters.
There was nothing of the
harsh, selfish, dictatorial man-
to get up everything they could
to shoot and be prepared for
. . a . .... - ..that fellow when he came back?
with/Vcry few in the middle of . , . .
. * iand sure enough m twp % or fchree.
the road; therefore, rtn6u?ht
we had better stay where there!
we a* thy fewest shell holes, and ,
^ stayed in the middle of the road i
until we had to leave the-road. 1,
thought sure the}’ would hit us.
when we left the road, and they
—— . 1 ner in them. On the contrary,
th.8 was at my post of command thpy Rave me always the feel
“A barrage of dead bodies
so thick and numerous as to
*furn the course of the Euphra
tes river was made by the bay
oneted women and children at
the hands of the Turks in
Junx,” according to the United
States Consular report made to
Ambassador -Morgenthau, of
Turkey, which fias just been
made plrblic through- the
American Committee for Re
lief in the Near East, w’hose
campaign to raise $30,000,000
for these starving people com
mences on January 12th. “Men
and women were stripped nak
ed, fied together in hundreds,
shot and then hurled into the
river.
“Day after day, night after
night, the prettiest girls were
carried away; some times they
returned in a pitiable condition
that told of their sufferings.
Any stragglers, those who
were so old, infirm or sick that
they could^not keep up with
the match, were promptly kill
ed. Whenever a Turkish vil
lage was reached, all the local
vagabonds were allowed to
prey upon the Armenian girls.
Hundreds of orphaned chil
dren are wandering aimlessly
alone over the desert sands.
Their skin hanging from their
bones like rags, slowly dying
of starvation and thirst. Well
QUEENS—RAILROADS—
STARS
... . ' • ' . / - - •» ;
sad
OLD FADS CULLED
(By Dubois.)
What makes some nights
starless? ^
Ans.—There are no starless
nights, but sometimes we can
not see the stars because they
are hidden by clouds or fog.
*
Please tell where to find the
quotation, “Qh, East is East,
and W’est is West, and never
the twain shall meet.”
Ans.—In Rudyard Kipling’s
“Ballard of East and West.”
which Germans consider
pertant. '
Has Hungary become a re
public?
Ans.—It is not easy to say
just what the government of
Hungary is. Parliament dis
solved after the revohition
which followed the armistice.
In its place is a National Coun
cil with twenty members. The
Council is supposed to repre
sent ail parties except the im
perialists, who seemingly have
ceased to exist. This National
Council is managing --every
thing, so far as there is any
management at afl. It has at
least two Socialist members,
; who seem to be in control of
! foreign affairs.
fed Americans can hardly
ing that not only was the writ-.j * ma ®»* ne terrible conditions
er close to me but that he was,
indeed, a real friend.
of these war wrecked people of
Armenia and Syria who are
minutes he appeared
rectlv toward us and not over
100 feet high. As soon as he gift
close enough he opened fire on
us with a machine gun, but the
men were ready for him and
^ , ,, T .-. when I told them “let him have
<).d &them all arounOut not. jt „. th , fet hjm have jt for al ,
a shell touched a man on the they were worth with rifles , pis .
.tols and one man had gotten a
iJBrowning automatic rifle with
which he did fine work. As soon
as cur firing commenced he
turned and got away as fast as
! possible, (’apt. Hollingsworth,
who was just below us with his
; company
±... ............... SR—rr—^-C " sJ.>5VaV“ T ,'.“
Please tell how to pronounce
Czecho-Slovak, and the origin
of the name.
Ans.—Check-o slo-vak. This
new republic in central Europe
How roob does fighting cease
after an armistice is declared?
Ans.—-That depends on the
terms of the armistice. £ e on©
declared on Novembe ? { pro
vided that fightin ^/should
cease ^.t II a. m. c £,ie same
day. But the half J*. fighting
is supposed to bf jMy tempo
rary. In theory / * nations are
still at war. P ^/mal confer
ences ef the v Carious Allies
are being held ai Versailles, te
dtecide what permanent terms
shall be imposed upon the
enemy in place of the tempo
rary terms embodied in the
armistice. When the Allies are
agreed among themselves the
final Peace Congress will he
held, with envoys representing
both sides in the war. Ger
many’s envoys will have a
chance to state their objections
if they have any, and to plead
for easier terms if they ifiimk
that will do any good. As the
Allies lew have all the power
the enemy will be obliged ’ tP
accept whatever terms the &I-
jies max have agreed upo/'aa
just and reasonable.
i
Which was the first. nation
te use gas. in this warT
Ans.—Germany. It was for
bidden by the Hague conven
tions, but Germany disregard-
1 ed them, which compelled the
other nations to do the same.
road or white*we were crossing
the field. As soon as we reach
ed position, iu-iault formation
was taken up arui the advance
directly against the German lino •
was commenced, and if the old
boy and his imps ever bi;oke
loose* they did then, and paiu us i
a visit. Shell- of every kind and L
)
crabber rarrreti down. - We ha<i|
about 1,500 yards to go to j
reach the position we were to oc
cupy. Mixed v* ith the-shells was
a lot of gas, one company lost 41
r ien gassed, but none of them
died.
You never saw finer soldiers
secure front The State an in
definite leave of absence on ac
count of niy-bealth, Jyhn Rey
nolds wrote me, expressing his
sorrow at what then seemed
possibly the end of my journal
istic career. He would wel
come me back, he said, should-|l luale
the* hand of providence wrll it 1
that way:, in a few monfhs I]
had recovered my health and
Was able to resume my work
for T,he State. Promptly upon |
Mr. Reynolds 'becoming ac : ;
he
unless relief, is sent 'at once.
Every penny of the fund to be j
raised by the American Com-.
own
closelv
al-
... . 1T - . , , .and Moravia. The names are
mittee will go toward purchas- , , e ... ,
, taken from their own lan-
mg food and clothing, as the . . ,
. ■ y ■ , . * , guages, which are
incidental expenses of the cam- 1 ,
, ^ , , j lieu
paigH have been guaranteed by
subscriptions in the
United States.” >
be found for him, some* of
the’Slav family found princi- the London papers are suggest-
pally in northwestern Hungary ing that the Prince of Wales
should marry an English or
The Very Cradle of Christian
ity Threatened—America
Alone Can Save It. t
Declaring fhajt he believed
American girl. 1 The one that
his choice rests upon will nat
urally, if she- accepts, become
Queen of Great Britafri.
Is this the first time the Centuries have passed since
president has left the United an heir-apparent to the British
States during his term of of- throne has married outside of
i royal rank, but there is nothing
in the British constitution to
>> Uo V> lull lllu , _ *il , • ,,
, quainted with this fact
told me tnut lie ileald l . , . ’ and would not liprmit the pm
, , ,, . .... ,ii , , wrote me, welcoming me back Amx ,K n L inc
the bullets hitting the plane, but; ,■ n ,,
to the haunts of remade men
none hit a vital spot: *
Attached to each battalion is a
\
signal section composed of 31
men who l<*ok; .after..'-telephone
lines and al! other means of com
munication with the rear. In
less than 30 minutes from the
, , , i t ime the assault started the sig-
fn vour life, they never halted i . -,
- , . Jnal section with me had a tele-
! phone line in operation from my
position near the front line on!
Headquarters at
and I was talking to the colonel.
The line was shot in two three
times, but each time those fel-
gUi
for one moment, but moved
steadily to the front; an officer
had only to make a signal and it
Was obeyed instantlyr Soon af- -
ter the assault started 10 or 15
men of the 324th Infantry came
running back" through our lines j
•'.’saying that the Germans haelL ^
J A _ , , j lows would go out and repair it;
ms covering that field i .r , , ..
they kept the connection up
through fiTe 'gas attacks, and I
wds jiiever delayed in communi
cating with headquarters for
one siuiute. Their work was
siinply marvelous.
Some people think that doc-r-
tors, dentist and chaplains in
the army do not have to go into
much danger, -but they are vast
ly mistaken. They go right into
the fight just as any other officer
or man. The two doctors with
us, Ca&L Jobson and Lieut.
Crum, the dentist, Lieut. Tyler,
and Chaplain Schocke, Went
right up to the front line and
right through it.alh They estab
lished the drr3S£Ug station near
‘ and assuring me oi mis great
i pleasure in learning of niy rc-
Iturn to good health. It was a
letter that l much appreciated,
and 1 may say that it was one'
which inspired me to better! °^ eis •^ c ‘ ar Last,
'work and more intelligent ser
vices for The State.
To Mr. Reynolds’ good moth
er, whom I kneW as a boy in
lice ?
Ans.—No; Presidents Ar
thur, Cleveland, B. Harrison, prevent i.. Four or five of the
., . , ,, , McKinley, Roosevelt and Taft wives of Henrv VIII were not
che American ])eop!c could not , ... , 0 , . . ! .. , , . x
.. .. : lett the United States during , ot royal birth. • ( .
their term:?, though none went | Unless he does make some
so far nor remained so long as j such choice the poor ydung
-die erf* Christianity to perish/
I Henry M-ovgenthau, former
f / • *
| United States Ambassador to
! Turkey, pointed out the dire
need of the poverty-stricken
/ and starving Armenians and
the battlefield to Regimental! f olle g«- and to the other me W -
Haudimont,
11 liil i. i iG
and if the men advanced they
would be" wiped out, blit not one
of our men paid me l£ast bit of
attention to them, but kept right
on. The machine guns opened
lire ail right, ami kept it up all
the lime, but that made no dif
ference to our boys; they never
stopped untik they reached the
objective. r How they lived
through it I do not know, some
fell wounded and some killed,
but nothing like you would ex
pect. The men were deployed
with wide interval between
them and that is the only way
we can account for so few
losses. A man would moVe for
ward a few yards and a shell
would hit the spot he had just
“The condition of these peo- , ,
pie is appalling,” said Mr. Mor- f f . TT . ’ 0
* -of the United States more than
au. “Four hundred thou
sand of the starving hosts of
Armenia and Syria are chi 1-
dren. Multitudes have already
perished, while their mothers)
stood 1 , powerless to help, while
their dearest treasures died be
fore their eyes:—their own
children for whom they would
well as to his illustrious father,
now since gone, may I add
these few lines to what others
' ^ ' .
may sa ,T v
John Reynolds sympathized
with the misfortune of other ! n a\e given their lives.
men, as I’know from personal
experience, and in their bright
and prosperous days, there was
nohe who rejoiced with them in
their successes more than he. _ elepend the perpetuation of a
This was typical of our young lace ^at early accepted ( hris-
friend who has laid down his D an ^>' a race ihat has been
“Upon these children, help
ed back to normal childhood,
let us hope, by the generosity
of the American people, must
life on the bleak fields' of bat-
tie. May his efforts be an in
spiration to those who' will fol
low hereafter.
\
The above tribute was paid
f v *
to the late Lieut. John Rev-
. * ■ %
nolds, who died of wounds re
ceived in action in France.
Lieut. Reynolds married Miss
Emily Bellinger, formerly of
Barnwell,* now of Oolfimbia,
who has many friends here
most cruelly persecuted by the
barbarous Turks arid has gone
to Calvary for its belief,
• “A't Teheran and other cities
men, women and children ar6
prostrated on the Streets from
fConiinutvl ip Pajte 1-iit.l
who sympathize \tlTh heF
the loss of her husband.
* P. H. McGowan.
in
not been outside
States mor
a day or two at one time.
Is it iikely-that the railroads
will ever go back to private
ownership?
Ans,—We must wait and
see. It seem* rathef likely
that the question will play a
large part in the presidential
Campaign of 1920. There is
much to be said, , for and
against. I
Would like to know why the
emperor of Germany is called
“kaiser.”
7 Ans.—The word is a German,
form of the Latin Caesar, as
Czar, or Tsar, is a Russian
form of the same word. Long
-after Julius Caesaf was dead,
the Rofnan enrperors continued
to call themselves “Caesars,”
pronouncing the word like
Kaisers. The title survived or
was revived in Germany and
Russia. The kaisers were Ger
man Caesars, n©t~“ertperors of
Germany” —- a distinction
i
Mr. Wilson: However, he is | man seems doomed to baejie-
ttochnically on American Soil i lorhood. He has declared that
when he is on an American 1 he will not under any.circum-
f naval vessel or .in an American j stances marry a German.,
Uegation, whether in London, | There is one princess of suit-
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Paris or Rome. Thus in a legal able age in Italy,\but questions
of religion would interfere.
The four beautiful daughter?
of the late Czar ; of v Russia
might have been eligible, but
they have apparently been put
to death by the Bolsheviki. -Ac-
single princess in Rumania
might answer, the London,pa
pers say, but the idea aw’akens
no enthusiasm a*mong the Brit
ish people, who have to be con
sidered in arranging such a
marriage,
, The London Express says:
“If he should choose an Amer
ican bride the enthusiasm on
both sides of . the Atlantic
would be unbounded, and dra
matic possibilities would bo
opened up. • The example
would be infectious, and there
is no telling where the eonse—
* f
quences would end.”
. Jt is given out in England
that the Prince of Wales will
visit the United States before
long, in order to return, on ba-
nalf of the King and Queen,
the visit of the President al
Mrs. Wilson. The prince
now 24 years olfr.
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