Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, April 26, 1918, Image 1

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m V* YORKVILLE ENQUIRER. ISSUED 8KBP?WggKI.T. _ L. M GRIST'S SOfS. Pubiiiher,. ; % ^amilii jleurspaper: jor the promotion of the political, ?wtal, Jgrieultural and (Commercial ^Interests of the f)eopty. 1 TERMSin?[^5cop\\^kRvk^kn?ANCE" ESTABLISHED 1855 YO HK, s7 c.. F R 1DAY, A RR1L ^(> l"m8. XO. 34 iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiimimiiiimiiiimiiiiiiii | "Bride o> B Ii> VH TOK 1 A ROMANCE OF THE | FIGHTING ON | FIELDS OF ~ <o|>.vri stltt I') W OIIAITKIi V. \Vli?n at last ho aliKhtftl at tinilnoi. ami was shown into tin r?|>tion rooin, h? ! It that hf was almost ti> liiMiliK with t uKt i ii.-ss. Il?- luokoii uiu:t'i taiiil> uhout hint, at 1 .. .a i.Mi.-. is tin' latlit-s. I fit* ?IUat|, ui jwui.q ? - - . :it Mrs. Ilovvaiii ami th< n at Ilia- st.vl- ' ishl> alra-ssa d vexing woman at Ini 1 side. Ami forgetting Ins maiun i s, In a|?|ii i.:uti'<l li<-r in stii|? tui tion. i:;m?i nig Ills hostess lot the mono lit. "Kli-aiior!" ' "i nch- Mark! It's tuvai >011. I'm Mark " ci n il the girl. ' VVIiv I slmiiM never, in-ver hav< known am " Itiit woiihl la have known I-i. ha<l I he not looked closalv into lie- i leal ' a.MS to disi'i I'll the tail* ol 1 lie little I wail helicalh thi' hauntv ol tie woman? Ih had olten ami nihil imugiinai ' Ih i, grown la< wnmunliooil, ami iln ssa a| as lla- WOllhl ha\a all a sset] ha i , lallt ' Malm haaw sin h: a a | alwavs haal Ilia' liaoi, ami as|aeet ol Ilia- child, hla-mla <1 with ' till' sclinolgil I. A sllillli-ll i'lllll Willi ' through his In art at In r si ll-niasta i. ' tin' Wall hi a -a| w a h a aim* that haal ill it tilth- ol ri al aaga rili-ss. Ami In- n ail/. al that, though In hail alwavs Ionian on ha-r as lost, at tin- hot loin of his ' In-ai t In- iiiiisI havi* ho|ii al to lilnl In i 1 again. Ih stooal, a graving-haii'eal, uncoui 1 ioitalih. aluiost niulalla'-aga'il man. try- ' ing to fai'l at hoim-. lie saw Ka lh r- ' man looking at him across tin- room, ; as if thill' was some niessaga- in his e.vi'S. I "I ho|aa* I haven't ehangaal so llllla'h s ;is all mat, sum .wain, .sinilo. ' "No."* slii1 unsworoil. lookinu at liim Willi a sonroliiug, diroot fai/.i. 'Not * nnlly only al lli'Sl a|i|>uarnnuo. Why, I m il Mark, your lioii is tiiriiiiii: may. What liavo vott hoon dointr with your- ' srir?" llo lull that tin- unoonsoioiis shall 1 hail y;oiii' wi ll holiU'. Hi- only auswiT- ' oil \ni;ii''ly. Thoro was :i littin- 1 toiiual ilaiit-inu, ami, as hi- li lt lioliltod * Ins In* wall/.i-il a low turns with J Kli-auoi ami sat liaik with Mrs. How- * anl, survi-yiiiK tho y?uy I'l'owil. ami if- : i'uIUiik nii'inorii'S?ahoul tho most dishiarti'iiinv; tiling that In- oouhl liavo 1 llotto. ' "What do you think ol' Kloanor?" ^ 'iOUKOUT .miiily. Itut tin- ooloiiiTs willmissi'il tho allusion. "Slio has hoon ora/y to soo you." v .Mrs. I low anl oontiiiuoil. "Slio kuvo ' tin- ooloiiol no lost a I tor In- tohl us ' that ho was Iryinc to stol you for tin- * war ollico. I holioyo slio had always hail a soil of routniitio n col hot ion of ( you. and InoUod ii|miii you as a sort ol mnlkiiL 'illlioliull. of oouiso, il was a s fortunate thing tor licr :iiul us- and 1 you. tun?that Colonel Howard ?Ii?l ' succeed in inducing you to let us take ' her. She has boon everything to us." "(>t' intir.se," said Mark mechanical- ' ly. 1 "It would have been a terrible life for Iter out in tin- desert." sighed Mrs. ' Howard. "I think that yoil woro vor.v ' wlso. Captain Wallaoo. And what a 1 droadlul hiirdoii and responsibility you ' would liavo had!" ' This littio Mark did not attoni|it to * answer. "Sho has been a daughter to hoth of ' us." |Mirsiiod his hostoss. "And now ' I'm atraul we're hoth afraid. Captain * Wallaoo, that wo oannot hop* to have * lior tor loin:. Sho was tpiito I ho ratio 1 in Now York last soason." "Wallaoo followed the nil! with his ( eyes. Sho had just In-oii dancuig with a young otlioor; it had hoott a twostep. and as tho hand of three piooos ' l.roko into tho wildest and urorriost ' pa it ot tho piooo ho saw Itor, with ' tlushod laoo and laughing oyos, aooopt K< Herman's arm and surrondof Iiitsi It to tho danoo. ' Ki'llorinan caught Mark's oyos across tho room. Ho looked straight biiok with a moaning challenge which was * uniuLstakahle. Mark know tit that 1 moment that his antipathy to Keller- 1 man. whose existence he had disbelieved the other to suspect, was and had always boon returned. Kellertnan was a splendid llgtiro, ' even in his civilian evening clothes. Kully six loot tall, with the chest and } limbs ot an athlete, tlorid. with crisp ' black hair and a sense of the |h?sscs- ' sion ot power, he looked at least live ' years Mark's junior, though tiny had ' been born in the same year. "Hand- ' some Kollerniaii" had boon his sobrique in Ctilia. Mark remembered it 1 across the lapse ot years, and into his mind there began to titter, too. stray stories about hitn. ' 'rii.. iiii i..in.'*m hi tlint moment was ' like ii sword thrust. Hail he come three thousand miles tor this? Hut ' what hail been his thoughts tor Kl- ' en iioi, his vague wishes as to her Hi- ! ture? lie iinl not know. He had dreamed ' ?dreameil ot her, and never pictured 1 her as she was. There was an informal, stand-up supper ahout eleven. Eleanor came to Mark and asked him to take her to tlie buffet. Mark was conscious of a ' coldness, or hurt resentment in the Kill's manner, as if he had neglected her. He brought her a plate and sat beside her in an alcove. They were alone, measurably, for the first time that evening. "Cncle Mark, you are disappoint in-: me." said Kleanor. "I know it. and I'm sorry for it." said Mark. "I suppose it's?because T am not a bit like what you expiated me to be." "You are not the least bit like what I expected, or remembered. Captain Mark." she answered. In his jealousy he was conscious of the altered prefix. And. as Eleanor looked at him with hurt In her eyes i Illllll.llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll f Battle" | itorssKAl' = AMERICAN ARMY 1 THE BATTLE- | ' FRANCE. | . <?. chapman. r niiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiifr she broke off to smile ;it a young olHeer across the room, who returned an aril? tit gaze across the rubicund shoulders ot a very homely, hut moat important dame whom lie was helping to champagne. "Most of us experience disappointments in people whom we have idealized," said Mark lamely. "You mean?<>h, I'm sure I thank you. Captain Wallace," answeied the a111 acidly. "Shall we go back'.'" Hut Murk had a moment oi inspira lion. "Jii'fuic we go, Klcanor," In- said, don't .\oii think wo mix lit get <<> unle island each other a littIf*.* I suppose I have heen rude?hut. you see, I have I icon conscious oi your disap pointim-nt all the evening. and?" lie Stopped in bewilderment, lot Kianor was? laughing. "Hut I seem at least to have tin faculty ol amusing you," he continued. 'Dear Uncle Mark!" said K'leanor. laughing with tears in her eyes. She laid her hand on his shoulder. "Now I know you are my real Uncle Mark Iter all," she said. "Why?" he asked, in astonishment. "That's just like you, I'ncle Mark. It's you?it's the real 'you' I've always elll* inhered." "You seein to remember my cliaricter very well, Klcanor," said Mark, lying not to relent, and having an un-oinl'ortahle feeling that she was an ulept at hoodwinking. "Well, you know you paid me a t'airy long visit at the Misses Harpers" school, Uncle Mark." "You were nothing hut a schoolgirl hen." "Schoolgirls can judge character as veil as grown-ups." "And so you think you know rue, and -and you're not altogether disappoini d?" asked Mark, smiling at last. "I'm not disappointed in you at all. I you aren't in inc. Dear Uncle Mark. " "?" . mil'! Only tin s learn to adapt themselves to their environments. Von are Hist tlic same as fVcr?just tin- ?|iiiit. icnsitive, chivalrous Undo Murk I've 11 ways dreamed of." "Well," saiil Mark, "I see Hint there ire ho|ies that I shall regain the little varil whom I've always thought about. \nd, of course, I ought to have relented that your environment hps been ]J f.-rnTT been with .VOII, fill le ilVrT; she answered ImpulsiveK. 'Why didn't you keep me when you had our cloture, if you wanted me? oh. leal I'ncle Mark, that was so like on, tool giving up to others. And on never sent lite that photograph!" "I've never had one l;tken since, Kl anor." "Itut I've got you yourself now." mill the girl. "So you mustn't give me ip any more, no matter who seems to lave a better claim on me. Will you romise me that?" Mark knew now for certain that lie iad found his own. "I promise," In tnswcrcd. "Ilecauso. you know. I've been ver> inppy with Colonel and Mrs. Howard, tut this isn't the best and Idlest |<ait if me that you see here. If I could iave had my way I'd rather have been iving a more useful life somewhere? somewhere where I hadn't unite so nany tilings that I want. Colonel Inward gi\es mo everything he thinks want. Cut?you see. I'nele Mark, lomething is missing. Vou renieinliei vhat we talked over?about my being lie regimental mascot?" Mark nodded, watching her fare losely. "Well, that's all over and gone. I'here isn't any regiment now. anyiva.v. All the old people have gone out >t it. And we were three years in San Yanoisco, you know. Atid?Oh. Cncle dark, t wish we eould have those days igain, when I used to dream about my other and?and?" "I know, my dear." said Mark. "I've always secretly hoped that I diould know, some day. Cut I've nlnosi stopped hoping, except for one liing that I've never told anybody, k'ou remember what I said to you ihout a man watching me?" "He doesn't watch yon now. Kl nnor!" She nodded. "Ho has come back." die answered. "He's older and grayer, ut lie's the same man. I've seen him lore, in Washington. And I've never la red to speak of it. even to Colonel Howard, but I know it's not a delusion. Uncle Mark." "And you think he has some oonneolon with your father. Kleanor?" asked Mark. "I don't know what to think. What lo you think. 1'nelc Mark?" asked the flrl. "I think, my dear," said Mark deliberately, "that it Isn't the same man. It stands to reason it can't he. Win thould he have watched you all these rears and never spoken to you? No, Kleanor. I think you've had this idea no long that you have misinterpreted? I mean?" "I know what you mean. I'nele Mark. Well, It doesn't matter. Ann now I must go back to Mrs. Howard or they will l?e wondering what has Income of me. Hut we've picked up our memories, haven't we? And I'll see a lot of you. I'ncle Mark, before you go to the war?" (To Be Continued.) War and the Cocoanut.?We've had no end of surprises in relation to this war. The submarine ,has revolutionized naval warfare. The aeroplane has become the eves of the army. A gun that shoots 75 miles has popped up suddenly and we have promise of seeing one that will send a message of death and destruction 100 miles. Armies now fight each other with flame and gas and there are rumors of a device that manufactures lightning and will send bolts of death more dead ly and devastating than those with which Jove bon.hards the earth at times. Hut who. in his wildest imaginings ever supposed the humble cocoanut would vault to eminence in the held of Mars'.' And yet it is so. Henceforth the cocoanut must t>e included in the list of munitions. The cocoanut is the answer to the poisonous gas attack. With a suftlclent supply of cocoanuts the Allies can tell Kmjieror Wilhelm to shoot all the poisonous gas he wishes over the trenches at them. The cocoanut makes laughing Has of poisonous gas. In the Has masks which the soldiers wear as protection against gas attacks there is a certain quantity of charcoal, the ordinary charcoal of various woods. Charcoal has a remarkable absorptive action on gases. The charcoal now used is sufficiently powerful to absorb gas for 30 minutes and protect the mask wearer, but after that lime it loses its virtue ami unless mote charcoal is put in at once it becomes a menace to tin- man with the mask. Someone has discovered that charcoal made of the hull of the cocoanut has nearly 1> times the absorptive power of ordinary charcoal and that a man with i mask loaded with cocoanut charcoal can lie safe against the most poisonous of gas for nearly 1" hours. As a result of this discovery thousands ol tons of cocoanut charcoal will lie shipped lo France to be used in the masks of the men facing the Herman horde. It is going to cost a fortune to get .1.:.. i........I ..f oil noweil iVir to Mill'p I III* oi niHiKnii ...... cargo space, it is likely that tlie cocoanut hulls will lie cooked in tin- tropics and the meat and the milk of the nuts cast away until such time as conditions make .t possible to recover the full values. Commerce and Finance. GENERAL NEWS. Record of Current Happenings Collected From Various Sources. President Wilson Tuesday sinned the sabotage Idll. carrying penalties of $10.0110 and 30 years' imprisonment for destruction of war materials or interference with war industries. ticriuany has set a mark lor Lilorly Loan campaigners to shoot at. The result ol the eighth Oerman war loan, just concluded, according to Swiss advices. was a total of I l,.ViO,ono,uini marks?$3,ii75.0oo.ooo. The annual reunion of the I'nited Confederate Veterans will he held at Tulsa. Ok la., in September. Director iicUcral JlrAllM) lias grauicii a ? (' nt a mile rail 10:111 laic and prnmis I ample i-<|iiipiimnt to carry tin- veterans tn the Oklahoma city. Dr. (Sarlielil, fuel adntinist rat nr. has issind orders suspending the two light less nights per week until Sep. teinher 1st. The original order went into etVci J lasi November. when extrawPf'Sfry street and slim RgTitmg1 ?eie prohildted two nights jier week. The failure of Herman suhin;nines against Aineriean trans|Mirts is now politicly admitted in tScruinuy. Caplain Kuhlwetter. writting in the I'.erlin I .oka I Anzeiger. explains it by saying that the t'niteil States troo|i ships are effect i\ cly guarded I > swill and powerful warships protected with special devices. I'ope i Jetted id will make another peace tno\e us soon as the Western offensive has assumed a new phrase, says the Neiieste Xaehriehteii oi Munich, Havaria. The correspondent at Amsleidom of the Kxchunge Telegraph Company, telegraphs that the Itavarian newspaper says the move will take th form of a "word ol warning aildresseu to the universal conscience." Three lirothers, Charles Clinnrd. Its; liurton Clinard. JO. and Sherman Clinard. Hi. were drowned in Salem creek near Winston.Salem, X. C.. Sutida;.. They were in a small hoat which begittl to leak and turned over in the swift current w In n the> tried to row hurriedly to siiore. A small hoy from the hank saw Charles, the onl\ me of the three who could swim, make en ineffectual effort to save his youngi r brothers. I A further curtailment id' the manufacture of pleasure automobiles was indicated .Monday as toe outcome of a conference held by tin- lucl administration and the war industries hoard with representatives of the automobile industry in Washington. The curtailment. if made effective, would r<strict the manufacture ol pleasure ears .about 25 t>er cent of normal produc lion. A :tu per cent reduction already has been made operative. The (let-man air "arc," Maron von Kichthofen. was buried Monday with military honors behind the Itritish front <>n iho S online, iirroniini; to worn from correspondents' licnduunrters in ttif west. The fiiinoiis (Serin.'in flyer who only on Sunday was tviKirteil by Merlin to have brought down his Tinh and soth opponents Saturday, was "bagged" Sunday. He was the commander of the Merman pursuit suundron of battle airplanes and succeeded I'apt. Itoelcke u|Min the lattcr's death as the 'star flyer" of the Merman army. Four hundred thousand tons of Norwegian sailing vessels have been taken over by the United States shipping hoard, by charter, it was announced in Washington on Monday. As many as possible will be used to transport Australian and Argentine wheat to the Allies. Others will be used in their present trade with Australia. South America and Africa. Announcement was made, also by the board, that the newly-chartered .laimnese ships would lie available in May when they will be loaded with coal at Nagasaki for 4'Idle, whence they will bring nitrates to the United States before being assigned definitely. Director Mcneral McAdoo. Monday sent it message to all the employees of the railroad administration, giving them practical assurance that they would receive a substantial increase in wages. He tells them the good word will be sent out about May .1. immediately after his return on tW completion of the Liberty loan drive. The director-general asks the men to show their patriotism and proper spirit by "lending all the money they can" in buying Liberty bonds. The wage increase will date from January 1 and the director-general imsses along the broad hint that the increase will be four months "velvet" and no better use could be made of it than in turning this to the support of the war. wnue iney win iwcnr t ??- n-m interest a year. J. I'ierpont Morgan. Iioucht a battered German helmet in New York. Monday for $50,000. Loud cheering greeted the hid for the memento of the war at the open air Liberty lxwn campaign. Lieut. Gordon Sherrts. of the Canadian Black Wateh. attired in kilts, mounted the pedestnl of George Washington's monument before the subtreasury and held aloft the helmet. "This belonged to a German captured at the second battle of Ypres." said he. "I want to sell it. but will accept not less than $50,000. How much am I bid?" No one in the crowd had thnt much money in his or her pocket and it looked like no sale. But Charles Alfred Bill saved the day by purchasing it for Mr. Morgan. Later It was announced that the buyer had presented the helmet to the Liberty Loan i committee to be auctioned off again. MEANING OF GREAT WAR Light Of History Oo Present Conditions. CHRISTIAN CIVn^TIOPPDN TBUL Germany Aims At Making Sport Of The Domination Of The World. With All Other Nations As Her Servants or Slaves?America The Last Hope Of Humanity. linn. John i~ MH-aurin was tin |>l"lIII" 1 J*?l I .SjM'Uh'T ill il l?invi i f *?? rally at Sumter InMt Monday night. H? undertook to show his hearers the exart meaning to the great world war now in progress?how and why it started, the purpose for width it is being waited, what will happen to America if she fulls to do her duty, lie undertook to show that America lias proved equal to her tremendous, responsibility up to the present, and advised that Americans should think i-l nothing else than victory until her task is completed. It is not practi< aide to give the aitdress in lull: but the tallowing extracts will carr> all the impressions the speaker sought to convey. The War. tin (loud Friday a great congregation worshipping <!od in a church in i'aris were liiiried lie neat It its ruins l>> a ticrmati shell. How typical oi tie aims and purposes of (ierinany?the destruction of the foundation of civilization. ill order that a new Kultui may arise upon the mangled and inutiIiuled bodies of Itclgiuin and France. Is history about to repeal itself? Head in f'lease's ID decisive battles ol tile world ol the battle of I 'ha Ions near th? st(lie of the present gigantic conflict. We haven't heard much of tie word llun until since the devastation el France and llelgium. How liko the kaiser was Attila. The open and avowed purpose ot Attila was the destruction of Christian civilization, lie overran Kuropo calling himself "the scourge ol Cod." He boasted of the desolation tolowing in his wake, He ordered his soldiers to outrage wo-1 men, mutiliatc children und to salvage and destroy so that other nations might he cowed into submission. Wives and virgins outraged in the presence ol husbands, fathers and brothers and then either murdered or sent into slavery. Nor does the parallel stop there. Attila like the kaiser was no mieilueutod barbarian, but possessed t.ie greatest learning and highest culture |KJSSll?le in these times. He Was a statesman and general of great ability. Hear what the historian says: "Attile relied less on the brute force* of armies for the aggrandizement of hi* empire linn on the unbounded airectlon of hi* friend* and the feur* of hi* foe*, which hi* genius . nabled him to acquire. Austerely sober in bi* private life: severely just on the judgment at : ennspicious among a nation of warriors for lundihood, strength and skill in every material exercise*: grave and deliberate in eoliuril. but ra|>id and remorseless in execution. he gave safety and security to ail who were under his dominion, while he waged a warfare of extermination against all who opposed or sought to escape front it. He watched the national passions, the prejudice, the creeds and the superstitions of the various nations over which he ruled and of those whijb he sought to reduce beneath his awa$?- alb of J BftW-vr fl.nl ra to* account : his own soldiers believed him to be inspired of God and followed him with fanatic / al. He railed himself "The bread of the World.' by the grace of God. King of the 11 uns and Goths." What a pen picture of the present kaiser, telling bis soldiers to make the name Herman feared for a thousand years, to rape, bum, pillage and destroy in the name of Hod; calling a treaty "a strap of paper" striking at tlie life of nations, by forcing wives and virgins to motherhood; sending men and women into slavery to work the mines, till the soil and gratify the brutal lust of the beast in man; turning the world into a eharnel house that tlie ambition of one man fur world domination may be gratified. Nor does the parallel between the batth of I Meanly and Chalons stop with I ho character m the kaiser and Attila. Attila was lighting the embattled hosts of Christendom and staked his mpire on one stroke. When the batHe began to go against him, he piled bis treasure in the center of the camp and placed hiiust If on top of it, with ilio intention of sitting it on lire and lying in the Maims. So the kaiser lias staked all on the success ol the great Herman drive, but again Attila ..nd the modern Huns will llnally fail. Ambassador Herard in his book tells of a conversation lie had with the kaiser in IKla. He spoke of how he had studied the lives of Alexander. Caesar and Na|Mileon. "They dreamed of world empire and failed. I too have dreamed of world empire and my mailed list shall succeed." Once more on the Maine and tlie Sonime, brave I'rancc is defending with her manhood the advancing Hun. Civilization can never pay its delu to bleeding. sulTering France. She cheeked the Huns 1,3(10 years ago. and again .'too years later under Charles Mallei, at Tours, she thrust back the Mohammetnn hordes who were overrunning the world. In 177(1 when we were struggling for freedom. France came to our aid. I doubt if we would have achieved independence at that time without tin- guns, ammunition and ti*ained olliccrs sent by France. France has kept alive the feeble spark of human liberty. In 17S3 it spiang into a bright flame anil struck the Divine .'tight of Kings a death blow, to be almost drowned in the blood of the French Devolution?hilt flickering feebly she passed it through the hands of Jefferson and Franklin to the I'nited States. It is now symbolized by the great glowing torch of the Statue of l.iberty at the mouth of our greatest harbor. Tlie eyes of the world are turned on that torch today. The Huns again are threatening to forever pu nch its light. Hut there are brave men from America, from England and from France offering tlieir lives a sacrifice on that same Held of Chalons, and the same Hod who looked down I .I'M"*. I u/1'.Lo.l irrniinH Mf 111 I rules above. Again the despairing cry of a In-art broken world?conqueror will be wafted down the aces, a lesson and a warninc. The lilies of France will spring forth again. whiter and purer, fertilized by the blood of brave men. and watered by the tears of true women. With all of her military power, boasted efficiency and 40 years of preparation, thene modern linns will fro down before the frown of Hod and the outraged conscience of a world in arms. Fellow citizens; it seems to me that divine jower was never more manih-st. than In having Wood row Wilson in this great world crisis. The humble professor Is now the foremost man in the world. He says this Is a war of nomocracy against Autocracy. The other day at Ralttmore when the Huns were driving our lines hack and dark clouds hovered on the horizon. He cave the world a message, the only message that the Huns understood. "I accept the challenge, I know that you accept it. It shall appear in the utter sacrifice and self-forgetfulness in which we shall give all that we love and all that we have to redeem the world and make it fit for free men like ourselves to live in. Force, force to the utmost, force without stint or limit, the righteous and triumphant force, which shall make riaht the law of tho world, and cast every selfish dominion down in the dust." Germany's Plans. This is a well considered attempt by Germany to dominate the entire world, and every nation figures In these plans. Russia is to be cut up into provinces. Her ignorant peasantry Is to furnish cheap labor and the Ukraine la to be th? great food producing region. The Balkans are to furnish fioin their fields supplies of oil. coal. iron anil food. Turkey is to bo a gateway t?> the teeming millions of tin- orient for | the manufactured products of <?erMtny. Tin* |>opiilaiion of Belgium and Franco Ls to be destroyed and the f< rtl* lands turned over to Herman set-l Moment. (lertnanj is t<> extend from I Oprlin to Bagdad to the south and the sBores of the Caspian Sea to the east. Borland is to be shorn ot her com- j tWrcial power and her treat nav\ coines under Herman control. The P<ut assigned to the I'nited States is to pay the eX|M-nses ol it ail. There are some who scout at the idea of actual invasion of the I'nited States by Hermany. it is easy to see how this will come. Oermany for many years has had her eye on South America and given the power she will 1 conliscate the British interest in t Mexico. The great oil fields at Tam- ( pico with the railroad from the Pacific to the Atlantic will |?iss under Herman control?this puts her between us 1 'and the Panama canal which, she will ; seize on some pretext. She will teach , German kultur and efficiency to the Peons in Mexico and keep a standing 1 army in that country. She can con- ji qucr America and never land a sol- , dler here. All that she would have to ( >lo is to force l-'rance. Knuland and other Kuiopean countries to adopt a * German svstem ot tiuance and make t American labor and products pay tri- x but<-. She would have a tariff and rate of exchange so arranged that e\ery pound of cotton that b it these shores i would be paid for by a lull of ex- | change drawn thrnnuh the Imisiial ? bank of llerlin. a proportion of wliich would ko in the German treasury. Tlie ' thistom Houses the world over would \ lev> a tax on each article vxhich came s into or left the I'nited Stales. When this becomes so burdensome that our ' people refuse to submit she would have I an army read) in Mexico to invade us , from the south. s Xo. in> friends, tins is our war and ' it is up to us to hrenk Prussian mill tniism and to ilestroy the imwer of this modern Attila while the other nations of the world are able t?? render . aid. If we wait to meet this mipht) lurec iiinii .-hut r.uiw|" ii.m ...... ..... Iin-ivd anil all of tin* resources of the civilized World concent rated in (Serinany's hands, our children's children will In1 tin1 slaves ni tin' most powerful and dospotIt- troii rnmcnt that tinworld has si-i-n sinci- tin- beginning of timi-. There are plenty of American traitors. not all of them Unman descent. who from avarice and amldtion i would welcome the advent of Cermany and seek place and power under her. These would lie placed In charge of ' the confiscated property of loyal fiti- < zens, and the government conducted , through them. The kaiser hoasts of 250.000 Herman and Austrian reserves in America, ready to strike when tin- I word is given and they will strike at t the lirst opportunity. Look at Russia. (1 Belgium. France, Servia and Roitmnnia. 1 German Propaganda. While developing a great military 1 I lower at home, one of the most elli- < cient means (iertnany litis used is her i propaganda creating tierman sentiment in til) the countries of the world. ' When the olliee of Wolf Von Igel at ' N'o. CO Wall Street was raided by sec- < ret service men. they found prool ol , plots to destroy ships, burn munition plants and funds to organize the I. W. W. They found where S million dol- * lars was given Bolo 1'iusha to bribe 'j iublfc men and newspapers. In a sec- , Xl.speech of the kaiser to a Herman p, ivj. ,? U. J igVcssional committee he said that he c controlled one-sixth of the votes in j, the I'nited States and to go ahead that this administration did not dare ' go to war. Look at tin- workings ol I' the system in Italy, Russia and tin t Balkans. I do not believe that all ., Germans are disloyal to tin- I'nited States. The Hermans came lu-re, seek- ' ing a refuge from tyranny at home and when the test comes the majority n will be true. Hermans organ to lumv m-i?the "thirty years war," which made * Hermany a howling wilderness. This u was a religions war. The ITotestant v armies rol)i>ed, burned and killed the Catholics and the Oat holies did tin same for the Protestants. You know. II when pious people net to killing each r other for Christ's sake, they do it very , thoroughly. The population of Her- ' many sank from lfi to 4 million. Can- " nihalism reappeared. The sallows had to he guarded to keep people from devouring the corpses dangling from the ropes. Where thriving towns had heen wolves roamed unmolested. Degraded, brutalized and poverty stricken the miserable Dermans lied j from devastated fields and burning 1 homes down tin- Rhine to Amsterdam. 1 where they sold themselves to ship captains for the price of passage to a r new world. The rulers of (iennany 1 drove the people from the Fatherland. * The stream kept up. men coming over J to esca|te military service and heavy c taxation. They were received with L open aims, given the right of citizens. ' They have grown rich and |w>w<-rful. ' St. l,ouis, Milwaukee and Detroit art ' largely built by Herman energy and ' thrift. N Preparation. There has been some harsh criticism i of the administration for not accomplishing more during tlds war. This j has come from two sources, one headed i by Kx-I'residcnt Roosevelt who is j probably sore because he was not per- [ m it ted. to go to France at the head of t a Division. No one doubts the pa- t triot ism of Col. Roosevelt, but I cannot help think that his criticisms arc unjust and that he is endeavoring to make political capital out of tin- war. * There are others who were pro-fier- : man and who went as far as tin y J dared in encouraging resistance to the : draft. Some of these men are in the J pay of Germany and others have be- J hind them a Herman constituency. Others are going as far as they can 1 and keep out of the penitentary front ' sheer general cussedness. I have put 1 myself to some trouble to see what J this fountrv has done in a year of war. It is a marvelous record and how any man can take into consider.-!- ' tlon our total unpreparedness and thi n j criticise those in authority is beyond ' my comprehension. You may be sure < those doing it are either ignorant of ' the facts or have some ulterior pur* pose. They should be looked u|>nn with ' distrust ami treated as enemies until j they prove otherwise. Listen, on April Cth. 1017 we had * only 160.000 trained soldiers under < arms and 9,544 officers; on April 6th. J 1918 we had 123.SO0 officers, almost as 1 many officers as we had men a yeai 1 ago, and when you consider the fact that a modern war depends verj 1 largely on trained officers you realize I what a tremendous work has been ar- ' complished. The number of enlisted ' me.n is 1.528.924 an Increase in one year ' in the army of about 900 per cent. One j year ago we had 84,000 enlisted men In J the navy and today we have 3<3.000 an Increase of 400 per cent. In the ' aviation service a year ago we only 1 had about 1.000 men and today there I is about 140,000 an Increase of 10.000 ! per c^nt. Our experts have standard- 1 Ized the liberty motor and will revolu- ' tiopize the air service. Twenty-five large companies are manufacturing airplanes. 15 more are producing engines and 400 are producing accesso rles and supplies. We have produced 100,000 automobile trucks. Machine ' guns are being manufactured at the rate of 225.000 per year and 3 1-2 Inch J guns at 15.000 a year. The ordnance , supply of the government Is handling every month 10.000 car loads of material. Within two weeks after war was declared contracts had been made covering the requirements of an army ] of 1,000,000 men. The government has taken over and is operating 260.000 miles of railroad, employing more than 1.000,000 men, representing an invest- ! meat of nearly twenty billion dollars. Outside of the loan to the Allies the United States spent 12 billions of dol/ <Continued on Page Four.) 'J. >-. v- - AMERICANS IN FRANCE ioglisb Writer Tells About Wbat Tbey Are Dolog. BENCH CONSIDER* ARMY A MIRACLE .argest Aviation Camp In The World Nearing Completion?Soldiers From The United States Who Can Speak French In Great Demand?But French People Think They Can Understand All The Same. lawrrniT Jerolrl, who has recently turned to London front a visit with he American forces in France, has his article in the I-ondon Telegraph: The old towns and'villugcs of Cental France look upon the American irmy in their midst :is the greatest tiirncle they have ever known. One notors through scores of little towns nil villages where the American solliers swarm. The villagers put tip tinting, calico signs, flags, and have ""if- nf American canned goods in hi-ir shop windows. The children vlicn hold pl.'iy with the American oldicrs and when shy venture to go ip ami touch nn American soldier's g. Old peasant ladies put on their hinday Idaek and go out walking and alking with American soldiers. The illagc mayor turns out and makes a peech utterly incomprehi nsihle to he American soldier whenever a r. sh contingent arrives. The 1919 lass, just called up. plays Inigles and ihouts "tiood morning!" when an Vmcricnn car goes by. Miracle to Our Boys, Too. Vice versa. Central France is pcriaps even more of a miracle to thi American troops. To watch the Amercan trooper being shown over a castle vhich was in its prime under I/mis <11.. and dates back to a Human fortess. now beneath it. is a wonderful iglit. There is nothing of the "inno cnts Abroad" about him. I heard icarcely anything of any American nag of modernism. On the contrary, he soldier is learning all these wonders if the past. The olllcer too, even the (lucated otlicer, is beautifully astonshed at all this past. ci... \ ?i,.fi,..,n otilcers who speak 'reach aiv, of course, lu rocs in every own. and sought after by every "nm il oliieer and man. Those who do iot Know J-Tcnch are learning it. A gnat French preacher in a section in a I'aris church said that this oming to France of millions of Hritsli troops and future millions of Viiu rican troops may mean eventualy one of the greatest changes in 'ontmental Kurope the world has ver known, ills words never seemed o me so full of meaning as tliey did vhen 1 was among the Americans. I'here of course, the contrast Is ininitely greater than it can be in the 'ranee which British troops arc ocupying and defending. These Anier ans, building up numerous works of II kinds to prepare for defending Vance, have brought with them "hinese and negro labor; and Chinese .lid negroes and Herman.and Ausrisui prisoners all work in these linerican camps under American ofleers' orders. Imagine what an experience this pectaele seems to the country folk if this old French soil, who have allays lived very quietly and who ;new. indeed, that France had allies Ighling and working tor her, but bud lever seen any of tlieni until these itnericuns came across a thousand iiiles of ocean. American Activities. Something of a miracle, also, is chat the Americans ure accomplishng. They arc doing everything on a luge scale. 1 saw aviation camps, raining camps, aviation schools waste racts where barracks were being put ip, railways built, telegraphs and tel phones, installed by Chinese and legro labor, tiemian prisoners labor, tnder the direction of American killed workmen, who are in France >> the thousand. There are V. M. '. A. canteens, Ucd Cross canteens, lubs for officers tutd for men. theitres iind moving picture shows for In- army and a prodigious amount u food? all from America. The hams done 1 saw strung lip in one canteen vould astonish tin- Hermans. Ameri an canned goods, meat, fruit, conleiiNed milk, meal, tic., have arrived n France in stupendous quantities. I cannot any either the number ot Vinerican troops now in France oi he number of troops who ure exacted to arrive this year, but the firmer figure is well up to expectation and the latter figure is usounding. Men Are Well Fed. I made one objection to American Quartermasters: "These men have irrived in France; they can be loused, there is room for them. Howire they to be fed?" The answer vas, "ltefore we bring the men we iring the wherewithal to feed them." This, indeed, is done thoroughly and nethodically. No body of American roops land in France until whut is equired for their sustenance several reeks ahead Is already stored in 'ranee. Only the smallest necessaries are bought on the sjiot, and roops passing through England on heir way to France are strictly for ilUlirn, liotll owners uiiu lurii, >u uu; iny article of food whatsoever in 'Indian d. As for tin; quality of the food, the Xmeriean lias nothing to complain if. All pastry cakes, sweets, are leneeforth prohibited throughout -Ivilian France, hut the American roops have these things in plenty. I iaw marvelous cakes and tarts. The tread is of pure white flour, such as 10 civilian knows nowadays. It is the engineering, building and machinery works the Americans are i?uting up which are the most asonishlng. Gangs of workers?labor lrafts. I think they coll them?have >ome over In thousands. Many of :hese young chaps are college men. Harvard or Princeton graduates, rhey dig and toll as efficiently as any aborer, and perhaps with more zeal. >ne American major told me how a [ arty of these young workers arrived itralght from America at 3.30 p. m.. tnd started digging at 5 o'clock next morning. The Aviation School. Perhaps the biggest work of all the Americans are doing Is a certain aviation camp and school. In a few months It has neared completion, and when it Is finished It will, I believe, be the bluest of Its kind in the world. There pilots are trained, and trained in numbers which are comforting'. The number of airplanes they use merely for training Is in itself remarkable. These flying men ?or boys?who have already been broken In in America, do an additional course In France, and when they leave the aviation camp they are ready for air fighting at the front This is the finishing school. The aviators go through eight distinct courses. They are perfected in flying. In observation. In bombing and in machine gun firing. On even a cloudy and windy day the air overhead buzzes with young American flyers, all getting into the pinh of condition to do their stunts at the front. They seem to be keen and well disciplined. They live in the camp, and it requires moving heaven and earth for one of them to get leave to go even to the nearest quiet old town. The impression is the same of the American bases in France as of the American front in France. 1 found one distinctive characteristic, the total absence of bluff. 1 was never nice told that we were going to be shown how to win the war. 1 was never once told that America is going to win the war. I never heard that American men and machines are better than ours, but 1 did hear almost a|<ologies from American soldiers becnitu.. th.>v hn.l not come Into the war sooner. They are. 1 believe, spending more money than we are?indeed, the pay of their officers is at>out double that of ours. I said something about the cost. "Yea, but you see, we must make up for lost time," was all an American general said. And he told mo about the splendid tmining work that is being done now in America l>y British and French oitlcers who have gone out there knowing what war Is. to teach American ofllo rs and men from first-hand experience. Hopes For More Speed. This general hoped that this means in a very short time American troops arriving in France may be sent to tlie front more ipiickly than is now tlie case. An impression of complete, business-like determination is what one gets when visiting the Americans in France. A discipline even stricter than that which applies to Britsh and French troops is enforced. In towns, officers, for instance, are not allowed out after a p. m. Some towns wlere subalterns discovered tin wine of the country instantly have been l>iit "out of hounds." No ottieer on any pretext whatsoever is allowed to go to neighboring towns. They have to put it <iuite frankly, a reputation ol wild Americanism to live down tint! they sometimes surprise the French by their seriousness. It is a striking sight to see American otllcers and men flocking Into tiny French Protestant churches in this Catholic heart of France. The congregation is a handful of old French Huguenots and the French pastor never in his life preached to so many, and certainly never to soldiers from so far. They come from so far and from such various parts, these Americans, and for France as well as for themselves it Is a wonderful experience. I was told that the (sistal censors who read the letters of the American expeditionary force are required to know forty-seven languages. Of these languages the two least used are Chinese and Gorman. YOU CAN'T REFUSE. Ily Strickland Gillilan. the man who wrote Oir ugin". On ngin'. Gone agin", Finnigin." The Sitininie came in from the trench, and says he: "There's too muni calls on the courage of me. I answered the call when they asked me to come To light that my countrymen might have a home. I've fought ever since we've been quartered In France;^ vance. This order you give, to go over the top Today, Is too much?I am going to stop. There's a limit to what I can rightly afford To give to my country with cheerful accord. The officer's eyes stuck a foot from his face To hear this subaltern who courted disgrace. And the private was sent where all mutineers go To be shot the next sunrise?he hadn't a show. I think that with mo you will promptly agree That a firing squad's right for such quitters as he. Hut hasn't he Just as much right to declare His whole duty done and his job to forswear As you In your home that ho fights to [ protect, When you're told that there still Is some coin to colh-ct? He's sworn to obey every call that is given; To risk his existence without being driven. You, safe here at home, take o<lvantage of this. And claim no disgrace when a duty you miss You seem to believe you've a rigid to refuse To lend of your hoard for the Allies to use In saving your land and the land of all others Who claim human rights for themselves and their brothers. You have no such right! In stern duty you're bound To give while a coin in your coffers is found. Rifles by the Millions.?Expert riflemen are giving daily demonstrations in handling the modified Enfield rifle, with which American Army organizations are being equipped. Many of these experts were members of the United States Itifie Teams which have won international shooting matches. They were commissioned and sent to camps to Instruct officers and men In shooting and in the operation and care of the rifle. These rifles are being pro ducod at the rate of 11,250 a day, or more than 4,000.000 a year. A statement authorized by the Ordnance Department says: ' As an illustration of the work of these demonstrators it is recorded from Camp Devena, Ayer, Masa., that officers under Instruction from them gave a demonstration in dismounting and assembling this rifle while blindfolded, the record time being seven minutes for dismounting and twenty-two minutes for assembling. There are eighty-six parts to the rifle. These officers will become Instructors in mechanics classes, the mechanics being trained to make repairs to rifles in the field. Frequently these men will have to do their work at night when they will not have a light or wlil not be allowed to use a light "A report from Camp Sherman. O., and one from Camp Jackson, Columbia. S. C.. states that both officers and men are much pleased with the 1917 model rifle, and that scores made by the troops have been remarkable in view of the fact that very fetr of them have ever fired an army rifle before." SOLDIER WHO HAS SEEN But Little ttiat is New to Batch Tiitoo HAS HAD TWELVE TEARS AT SEA North Carolina Man Now In The Army Familiar With Things In Europe and Says The American Soldier Is The Best In The World. (Passed by the Censor.) Camp Sexier. S. t'? April 19.?If one lakes ilu trouble to look around for thritt. ho will run no com* many soldiers at t'atnp Sevhr who will not he crossing the (tond tor the first time when the Old Hickory Division goes over to take a hand in the big serap some time this year. Especially among National Guardsmen here are many fellows who have been soldiers of fortune tor years and who have crossed the Atlantic and wandered ovei Europe scores and scores ot times. Tak< "Dutch" Ttlton, for instance. "Dutch" is now a soldier ot the line m an in tantry regiment and, by the way, lie's a good soldier, too. I'p to the tittle I"ticle Sam got into this war or ratlin just a little while before. "Dutch" was a sailor on a Danish merchantman. He has had berths on English. Kivnch. Herman. Swedish and Spanish vessels. In Isn't, about twelve of his thirty years ot lite have been spent on the sea and in hoboing in every country ot the world, rromiuclation ot the names ol the places where history is now being made in connection with the great war doesn't worry "the Dutch" at all. He is authority on European geography in his com fun y and it is an every day occurrence tor puzzled soldiers to come to the "Dutch" with their newspaper* for information. And In* rattles oft' French names and German names and names ot lielgiutu and those Italian and those Kusslaii, just Ilk)' out' of I hi'Ml' lll'w UlUWIllllg giltlS sllOOt Htl'I'l hlllli'ts. "Tho Dutch" was never inslth' of a school house in his life except lor the pui'lioHi'. as he sa>s, "of MttcnUin' some little old conceit or other laugh-producer that my best girl hail u hiunl in." His lack of regular schooling however, cuts no tlgurc. lie has gotten his from knocking around the world and his education has heett quite thorough. He has Mien the kaiser a number of times he says, and none of his comrades have reason to doubt it, because nobody has ever caught "the Dutch" lying yet, and h> has done a powerful lot of talking. He has looked the crown prince over on one or two occasions and he has also chanced to be around when the president of Kranee, the queen of Holland, the king ol Kngland and the former czar of the Itussians happened to be pussing by. "There ain't not bin' remarkable about any of 'em us 1 was able lo hoc from the long ranges I have had at Tin." In said one day to a bunch of us who were gathered around him trying to get a little "dupe" about Upcountry where the present gleut Struggle is going on. as well as information about things Kitro|tenn. generally. "They are just folks though all of them are better looking than I am (the Dutch has a long, hawk nose and his legs ure bowed, while he is tattooed from head to foot) arid their ribbons .and .lodges, iuiil. ouiy LL^'ig another __ [helps their looks. The (fermun kaiser looks like the pictures you see of him ill the newspaiH-rs. He's a pompous, hard-looking guy, and honest, those cartoons that depiclt him as the devil, look most like him. The president of I'Yunee Is a little bit of a fellow not much taller than I. The king of Britain looks a lot like the fellow that used to boss Kussia ?well, you have seen both their pictures. The best looking one of all the crowned heads ...i... ...... euiM.elallV on till' bill hoards Is-cause ol th<> war, Is the LiUH'n of Holland. If she wasn't a queen and if I wasn't a soldier, and happened to be In Holland and had a chance, why I might set up to her." "The Dutch" never talks much about the Herman army. Maybe it Is be. cause ho doesn't know much or even anything about it. and maybe It Is be. en use he. feels that he shouldn't say anything on the subject. He has great respect for the liritlsh as lighters, especially their navy; but he believes that when it comes to soldiers of the line, France has all of them In Kuropc beat to a frazzle, and none of them are equal to the Americans as lighters from an individual stand|?oint, though up to the time our country went into this war, "we didn't have no army and no military worth sis-akin' about," he says. The Dutch Is Just as confident as can be that the Allies are going to win this war now since America has come Into It. Still, he is looking for a lot of pretty fighting yet. and lie urgucs that there is going to Is- a lot of weeping in every little town and community in the United States almost, before the wind-up. He is thoroughly Amcricun and thoroughly patriotic. His pay is $3fl a month, $15 of which he allots for the support of his mother, $10 Is devoted to monthly payments on two Second Liberty Loan Ponds and 17 goes oacn month in payment of tin- premium on 110,000 Insurance on the Dutch's surety against Fritz's Pullets, lie Plows himself to a good time with the other $3 each pay day. I've often wondered why he is nicknamed Dutch. He is u native of Wayne county, iN'orth Carolina and there is no Dutch tilood in him. I asked him one day why the monacker, and he explained: "Well, Puddy, you know that no matter in what outfit you get in this army or any other army, there is always some smart fool who ain't satisfied with your name what your mother gave you and wants to give you another. One day a guy calls me 'Dutch' and every other gink has been culling me 'Dutch' ever since. It don't worry me none much, though It Is a little trouble some time. My right name is Kdward Lee Tilton. I get called 'Dutch' so much that some time I almost sign my name Dutch', on the pa>roll before I recollect It ain't so. I'd hate it If I made a mistake on that payroll some day and not draw my $3." I have run across a good many soldiers at Sevier who could be made the subjects of stories like this sketch of the "Dutch." While ninety per cen? practically of the soldiers here ar? native North and South Carolinians and Tennesseeans, many of them have already been everywhere, and crossing the Atlantic will be no new experience to them. But to the great majority of us it will be a new and a most wonderful experience, and one that is looked forward to with the greatest interest. Jas. D. Grist. Thurston Nelson, a negro. 14 years old. and three other negroes. Implicated with him, were arrested at Florence on Monday, etiargod with the theft on March 19 of $1,000 in currency from the First National bank of that city. The Nelson boy stated that he slipped his hand Inside the cage while the teller's back was turned and snatched two big packages of bills. The shortage was discovered that day and the matter was at once reported to the police department, which has been since working on tne cane, n is saiu that while a number ot negroes knew of the theft none of them would talk, and the police have had the greatest difficulty in finding a clue. Saturday, however, they arrested Julius Taylor, a 13-year-old negro, who waa reported to have an unusual amount of money, and the boy confessed, told the whole story as far aa he knew it, with the result that Thurston Nelson, McKlnley Brocklngton, Robert White and Robert Harrison, were arrested. Other arrests are expected. None of the money has been recovered yet.