Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, November 19, 1918, Image 2

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Scraps and /acts, i i ? IXUiIIh, \m a wireless from l.on- I Ion. can now he giv? ? of the work of the British subniallf.1: .v rvi'.c. This service destroyed the following enemy warships: Two battl?-sh;ps, two artned 1 cruisers. seven destroyera. five gunboats. suhrnai ir:? - and five aimed auxiliary v.-ss. Is. Three Battleships and on>. light '-nrs' i v.ofc torj?edoed hut reached j/or' Uidly damaged. Other <n<:my craft destroyed were: One Zeppelin. 14 transports. six ammunition and -upf.iy ships, two store shi|*?. ' '? steamships and ll>7 sailing ships. In no i-n.w was a merchant ship slink at sight. 4'are was taken to see that till reu s ol all Vessels got away saPly In addition to carrying out then attai r.s'on enemy war craft tin Mit.inaiiiHS played an important part in convoy work. In the third year of tie war one of the British Mihiua run i niiiinaiulei s i.uiud out -'t i iiisi totalling '"i0 mil*- w hich - - .1 pmhat.1 v i a snhtnarln*-. I:**|.r< >* nT;if i\ * nl lilli** |>r<?l**-t;int <l* ii'.iiiinal;<?ii." hnv<* a* |*t***l an invi tatinn ill thi* I*i ?liyt* nan * hur* h ui M.? I 'lilt* *| Stat**s 'ii \m* ri* :i to ni*-**t hi J'hilaii* Ipliia |)*-i** riil.' r 3-'I. in ?**?u ui-i a proposal ?il tin I'ivshytoriatl *;* ii* i;it .Vsm iiiM'. t'ii? "or;;ani<* nnn?ii * ! Mn vaiiL'i ll* al ohlll'll* s ill .\ I il* -1' I-a." ll ha: II aIIflOK > - I fI'olll i'hila-l* Ipoia. 'I'lii |ii.ill. an |?i-? >?-fit? ?! !<ii tlisriission. 'all. Ini ail liltI?-iinuiinntioi.nl iiiiim il to work nut a plan N.i ncikil'U "*n.. |.<|. ml < liilci-h it i>l all tin-si <l* noililliat inns." Thi* hnoliiilintioiis vx li I** li will h. ii*|ii?* ui i-i 1 al 'In* i in i *i*i in ? i*i* i 111l*n-|,\ Nl pan Ii 111 i'li in tin* I * ill* ! S' iIii nl .tiiii in a. I'mtiiliiiii K|>ii?i'*ipal i ii*ir<*'i in ?J.i I inii'ii Si.iN*.*-. i:> tiiriiii'ii i hinvli in !! I'lati'l Stahs. I nili "I I 'n sl.x l iftti ?*lnn*i Ii nl North \ii|i i li a. M**tho*|ist Ki'isi ojial ihill'h. ?"nii^i yaiimial i linn li. I?i.*si i|i|i*s <\ 'hrist, Kt an*;i'*lii*al synml of North A llii*l*ii a : Hi Mm?* "inn <*hnr**h ill Am Ilia. \ *l|S|<|t**|l !* ?**|Vi.| i'coin It'll iii -aw tin iii*\\ tsuv* i linn-lit has publish I lis |iroi;i-aiiiiiii in a pi o*-laliia! i*?n. Tin* lisjauhh aihls that lliis |ao. malum* * nlnn s inaiiv 111*mIill*11lolls i**\\ai?*t i|i*iiio?*i*ai \ ami liln*i*t>. ****n. tioiniia 11 \ ami | * >111 i* nll\. Tin- pro**I. in.11 n.ii nnlmli > that I In victims nl tin* li^htlim ilin lliu* III'* fast fi*\v ilaw ni.siili muil' i* I!* rlin shall In* l*uri***l loi'lh'i* in iln i? in* tit when* tin* in*. I ll*l-? I In* I n|S i'Volnlloll M**l* bill i* *1. Tin |*i'?M*laiiiatioii aiiiioiin*'<*s that iln* slat. ?.| si**m* has l***?*n tais I. that tin i< is to I*** loll lihi rtv for all. even fiim-lmtini i* to loriii iisso tuitions; lit* * * *iis* ?r> 11 * | , imlinlinu that on In atrii :.I-*, is al olisln il; tln*i*' ai<* I** I*** li' **'l"ln of s[i* i i*h ami v>fit inir. a:iiinst\ lot political nff*ns?*s. an?**io*..iii i,t t|l(. law oi national mix iliaiv service. .hi oUItt hour work ? ;i > iiiiiI universal ?Ii?? I sun t snflTaifo. with |>ro|rf>riionul representation for I.olll si'Vos above I'u years ol' alp-. loi i'h'i'1 iollS lo |>111>1 it- ImhIicm. -i'hairiuaii llurlev. of I>m shipping ho;ir?l. jiiiiI' l-'ooil Administrator I |oov**r saili <1 lor Km m|m last Sat ill* lay on tin White Stai liner 1il v mpie, tin- fortm-i lo siti.lv . ..minions wilh lofi iciii'c to tin* .pinkest possible return ol \in. 11? ;iit tloops from abroad, ami I lie latter to ml lull information i oneei lliim the food Heeds of tile |m'Ol>|e ol northern I "ranee, I '.eliduiil ami eelltnil Ktlfope. Itesiiles liavillf? lo look out lor tin return ol the Iroups in leeoril breakintf time, Mr. llurlev has also to provide for the transportation of all the I'ooil that Mr. Hoover shall liml to l>e ii< eessarv. As matters now staml. sine, the si-Tninu ol the arniislire, millions ot tons of shipping heretofore ti-'il up for fear of submarines ami other eonsiih rations, are available for use in earryinu grain ami other lo...I stuns from Australia. South Ameriea ami 1mn.lie.ls of sonrees that have heretofore been eloseil. It is sail I that more than one million tons of Herman shippin:: alone is now available -mil that tJnat lirituin ami l-Yaiiee will eaeli be able to spare its iittieh men for relief work. Ameriea also, will be able to luruish a eonsid. rnble amount of .slipping. 2 ? Kail rood telegraphers' wanes have been advanced by order of Director Conceal MeXdoo 13 rents an hour above the rate prevailing last .latiuarv I. with a minimum of iv rents an hour, ivi.-onrtive to October I. Kiuht hours heresifter is to be eonsiilereil a lay's work ami overtime will be |tahl at (tie rate of time ami a half. This or.ier. in vol vim: aen'rviile iner as.-s I>l aOOIII 41 I>?-t\\i? < !? lill.'MMt and employes, including telegraph' is. I' ! phone operators, agent tclcc in pliers. agent tclcphoncrs. tow* f nun. lever men. tower .mil train directors. Mock operators, and stall' men. It does not apply to telephone s\\ Itelltioal d operators. A separate wage order will l>e issued I Ids weeK applying to railroail agents who .iin- not telegraphers. The order meets iKirtially the request of the order ot railroad telegraphers for advances and will tend. through the provision of time and a half pay for OVeltillte to cnl down the lone hours ot employment of which telegraphers have heretofore complained. The wage order does not apply to persons paid <.'M or less a month for special services taking onlv a portion of their time, fuses of employes paid on a commission hasis. not including expr< ss or outside commissions, will he considered l>> the hoard of railroad wages ami working conditions. Itevisioli of the pending revenue lull with a view to yielding tfii.iMHi.iHHiooii payable during the calendar year ltd!* and not less than * l.OMO,ii<Mi.oi"t the following year, is recommended hy Secretary MeAdoo in a letter to f hairmntt Simmons oi the Senate tinance committee, setting forth the treasury's titianeial programme tor ttie reconstruction is'rlod. The secretary estimates that expenditures during the llseal year > n.ling next June .'to. now will he 5t<i,iioit.iMMi.iMio. instead of the oon.ono.rtuii estimated hel'ore there were pros|H-cts of peace. lie declared for continuation ot the |s>lic> of loaning to the Allies for a limited time dining reconstruction after peace td euatde them to purchase foodstuffs, raw* materials and manufactured products in this country. iMher recommendations ware: That income and profit taxes he payable in four equal installments on March 15, June 15. Septeiner 15 and Occcniber 15. That excess profit tax rates for liaymetits due next year he no higher than those in the existing law. That necessary safeguards he provided hv war and excess profits taxes in the form of adequate provisions for amortization, conservative valuation of inventories. and ascertainment of minimum income which should he exempt"I from tax to insure the taxpayers against injustice and avoidable injury. ? There will he no material reduc * 1**1* >> wam-n , mg the war. not without a terrible tight. aceording to Samuel Goinpers. president of tho American federation of labor. Mr. Goinpers referrsl most forcibly to tin- subject during the closing hours of the Pan American labor ronfiTt'titv at 1-arcdo. Texas, last Saturday, in response to a recent declaration by William II. liarr. president ol' the National i'oiiliilrrs associatioii to the effect that a "reduction of wages and longer hours will be the only means to enable American manufacturers to continue to co|?e with foreign industries after the war." After reading the words of Mr. ltarr. and stating that h<- worl' not hrve taken ' any notice of such talk except for the : fact that the same thing has come to , him from different sources. Mr. Gompers said: "With the understanding of the responsibility which goes with 1 my words, notice is giwn here and i now that the American working jhm>- , pie will not be forced back, either by liarr. his association, or all the bourbons in the I'nited States. There are some t*<ople who will not understand all that is meant by the willingness of the people of the democracies to tight 1 and make the sacrifices in order that l better times shall come to the worker. | The time has come in the world when the working people are coming to their own. They have now rights and i new redresses. They have made the < sacrifices and they are going to enjoy ( the better times for which the world has been in a convulsion. The Amor- ' ican labor movement whole heartedly < supported this world struggle. The | American labor movement went to the . fullest lengths in support of that struggle and we knew just what was 4 Involved. One more word: The American lahor movment will co-operate with all other apencies to help In this i '-construction time. Our movement is not to destroy. hut to construct. And a!l a.ay just as well understand now as an.' other thrie that the advnntaf* which the workers of America. and the Allied countries, have pained, and which we hope t<? extend lo the jttoph. even of the conquered "otintri's. are not polnp to he taken ,iway from us. And we will resist tl.u'. atUinp-. to the uttermost." ?hr ilorhvillc (Snquircr. Kntered at the Fostotfice at York as Mall Matter of the Second Class. TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 19. 1918. Tln-.se American people are e*|Uul to about anything they undertake. Iliudenhiirg says that the surrend *r was force<l I.y hnnKer, which moms that 'h<- llritish blockade did it. I'crshinu took Mcta with less trouble than was anti? i|*at* d. The taking was accomplished through the splendid work of the Americans along the line of the Meus*-. There is work for everybody, and for all the hoys when they return?far more than all of us can do. Then why should there he anything else than prosperity .hist think now how silly appears the id-a of Japan attacking Ann-ri* a- If Japan c\*t had any such idea, winch we have always doubted, she has li* stlcli oh a now I*ncle Satn had not even la-gun to strip himself to the skin in this war: hut from such indications as ho actually gave of his potential strength, it will he a long, long time before any nation will have the temerity to provoke him to real effort. For their appeals for mitigation of tin- a IN Kid heavy bunion: imposed futile armistice conditions, t!? tSermans have plenty of proivdont. in ilie. appeals of tin- French in 1*71. and if the Allies now net as ibe Germans did then there is ?oinir to might} little relief. Those people who think that stagnation invariably follows a devastating war are very badly mistaken. There will be trouble of course, in the disorganized Central empires, because of political and social chaos; but in Great Britain. France and America, prosperity. There is a strong desire among the representatives of Great Britain. Italy. France, and indeed of all Kuropean countries effected, Germany included, that President Wilson attend the peace conference. It is quite possible that the president will attend! though there is a belief that if he does, it will be as a spectator, rather than as a delegateTin German government, through l?r. Solf, the foreign secretary, has been imploring Secretary Lansing to speed up the peace negotiations, and Secretary Linsing has very properly advised the doctor that he should address his communications to the other Allies as well as to the I'nited States. If the Allies take from Germany only what Germany has taken from invaded territories, it would probably pay the expense of the war. Hilt it would not lie right to pay the expenses of the war with this property. All this property should go back to the people from whom it has been stolen, and Germany should pay the expenses of the war out of her own property and labor. Dispatches say that the presence of the kaiser ill Holland, is proving embarrassing to the Netherlands government, for the reason that it is appearing to aggravate the Bolshevik sentiment that had already been developing in Queen Wilhelmiiia's kingdom. Boishevikism. of eourse, hates such autocracy 41s the kaiser represents like snakes, and it is suggested that there is danger of a serious uprising. It is unite probable that the Bainbow division, which went to France first, will be brought back before Christmas. The troops will be brought back as rapidly as possible; but it is hardly to be expected that they will tie brought hack in the same order in which they were sent over. It was the Uainbow division, by the way. that took Sedan. liovernment control of the railroads continues until twenty-two months after the war. it will be best, we think, now that the government has the railroads. to keep them, (if course the government will have to pay, and that will be right and proper, provided it does not pay too much. But if the government shall turn the railroads back lo private ownership, it will eventually have to take charge again, and it is just as well for the government to keep the roads while it has them. The idea of erecting monuments to the \merican soldiers of the world war in each county in the Fnited States is under agitation. The imme diato occasion of the monuments is the memory of the soldiers who lost their lives during the war: hut of course the movement has even deeper significance than that. It means the commemoration of America's part in the great war. Already some of the counties have commenced taking subscriptions and others are beginning to organize the work .lust keep in your mind the fact that of all the prodigious achievements of the war the winning of the battle of the Meuse. ending in the taking of Sedan, was the greatest. If the American losses were not so heavy as In some other battles it was because >f good generalship and good individual work: but absolutely and without tuestion this was the great and difficult operatton that brought the Gernans to their knees now instead of leaving the finishing stroke to next spring and summer. ' The German complaint against Get Foch's demand for the giving up o 5,000 engines and 150,000 cars sound very distressing; but when it is re tnvinbered that Fooh is not asking fo any more cars than were stolen fror Belgium and France, one is astonish ed at the French general's moderatior Certainly he was entitled to ask for hi own. and there could be no denial c the justice of his claim, had he de manded the original 150,000 cars, an 150,000 German cars in addition. A to how Germany -is off for cars w j don't know, but to Americans 15O.00 cars looks like an extremely modes requisition. Lloyd George warns his country me that there must bi no injustice to Ger many for such injustice would reat upon the perpetrators of it Just as tier many's injustice to France in 1ST1 I now reacting upon Germany. Th great Welshman, no less able tha President Wilson himself, does not fot get. "Vengeance is mine, 1 will repaj saith the Lord." And indeed it is tini that the world should be learning th infallibility of this law, which applW to individuals as well its nations, tha he who deliberately works injustic himself suffers the penalty of that ir justice. We firmly believe that Oct many should pay for the ruin and d? struction that she has wrought- Ths would lie just. Hut is not going to pa to be spiteful or vindictive, for thi will surely react. Washington knows officially thi whereas there may be poor distribi tion of food throughout parts of Oct many the (Jerman people have plcni of food for immediate needs. A merit is to begin to furnish additional foe shortly: but this food is not to be fui nished free. The German people wi he required to pay through the got eminent, and if they have not got sul ticient cash they will have to arrange satisfactory credit. Washington is in much concerned about the almost hyi terical cr.vs for food that are beir made through Dr. Solf: but it is |nclii eil to look upon this kind of stutT* as ii tended to take advantage of the dee human sympathy which the Dermal as well as all other people understati exists in the American breast in su< boundless measure. <'n the eve of his departure for Kt rope, I'hairman Hurley, of the shi] ping board, gave it out that it was tl intention to bring American troo] back from France as rapidly as pos.s lib-. He said that although the Hritis government had withdrawn the shi| it hud been furnishing for transpo work, America, by using German ar Austrian ships now available, cou! bring tiic iinn homo at the rate i 300,imio a month. The largest nuinbi carried over in one month was 350,00 and 3.300.000 nun now on the othi side can be returned before next Jun There seems ttf lie no probability no that anybody will be kept on the oth< side except regulars. If there is net for more regulars than arc now avails Die. drafted men who will have tl right to return home, may volunteer they so desire. Chairman Hurley hi iji mind inc iacr inai snip* unnsu back soldiers may carry provision* I Europe 011 their return. ? The Hoys cmningHHoro^. ** All doubt about the early return < tin- soldiers from abroad and from tl oatn|?s is now set sit rest. General March has issued orders f< the demobilization of the armies witl out unnecessary delay. The orders provide for the immed ate discharge of the development ba talions. These include S8.198 men wh have been passed by the various loci boards: but who being found unfit fc service abroad, were organized inl special units with the idea of trying 1 develop them into fitness. Next there will be mustered out a conscientious objectors who are n< under arrest. Third in order will come men wh have been cutting spruce for airplane and fourth will be discharged the me who are in the central training schoo for officers. Already orders have been issued the vfill bring home not less than 200.0C men within the next two weeks, an by that timifS is expected that othei will lie going out at the rate of 30.OC a day, which will mean that the entli 1.Tito.ooo men now under arms in th I'nited States will be loose within th next three months. General I'ershing hus orders to hui ry home all the wounded, sick an convalescent who are ably to travi and also sick and wounded who othei wise would have been retained in th expectation that they would soon ri Join their respective commands. It is being arranged that the famor Rainbow division, the first to go ove shall be the first to return, and this dl vision is to be reviewed in New Yorl Washington and ni>?-p?hty oth^r cities. Every discharged soldier who re-er lists is entitled to thirty days' pay an ?t III Oil in 5* luilDUf.il, uui vuu^icffl ia * im asked to give each of the discharg ed soldiers thirty days' pay whetht they re-enlist or not. The soldiers are to be brought bac from Europe as rapidly as possible an so far as is practicable they are to b landed at pbrts nearest to their homes but as to how far this can be worke out has not yet been ascertained. " Under the law, all soldiers arc ent; tied to continue wearing their unl forms for three months after their dis charge. Genera! Pershing has not yet bee able to furnish a complete list of th killed, wounded and missing; but wi give that at the earliest possible mc merit. The prisoners number 5.738. The Cotton Situation. One thing our cotton growers fail t understand Is that cotton price is matter of world finance, and cotto growers if they will stand togethe under sane leadership, may fix price at what they will during ihc next sev eral years. During the past year the cotto growers have been in the hand.> of th American spinners and speculator who have been operating together t take the lion's share of the profits tha belong to the growers. There is absolutely no Justificatlo for the spinner, under existing condi tions. to impose on the cotton produce for the simple reason that the spinne has a corner on the goods market am is in a position to make the world pa; what he pleases for his goods. He ha been making the world pay trcmend ous prices and he has been takini about as much toll off the cotton grow er as he has off the cotton consumer. Shortage of tonnage high freigh rates and high insurance rates han i. heretofore conspired against the south- recognij f ern cotton grower to the tremendous sible ele s advantage of the American spinner; * but the picnicker s picnic at the ex- reuse r pense of the cotton grower is now may be n about over, and the producer of the ^ - cotton, provided he has not sold, is jiyL.e vot ? now coming to his own. It is s it is not to be understood that the bourgeo spinner is in the slightest danger of - embarrassment. Even on u basis of 40 vidual d or 50 cents cotton, he still lias a big ence bi s margin of profit at present prices for 3^rife c his product, and he can increase that tl)g forI 'J profit almost as much as he wants to. as othei >t but fi/rther increase will be at the ex- things. pense of the consuming public instead wjh0 ls, ? . , element of at the expense of the producer of the p?o n the raw cotton who has not yet sold ism. - his crop. 11 's ! :t The recent order putting a stop to [^J^as - short sales until the further pleasure have th is <>f the war industries board, virtually ped in e amounts to the establishment of a n minimum price for cotton. If the sup- tf,ev wi . ply of cotton was in execs:- of the pres- lish a ent and immediate future demund, the but smu e anti-short sale order would be of very e small consequence; but the war indus- the revi .? tries board and every one else who is Russia it reasonably well informeil on this sub- '<r,u,m o Ject, is well aware of the fact that the '* "Kariv i- supply of cotton is so far short of the it neces _ demand that there is hardly any limit tnuh's i .. to the price that the raw material can J*,1,', ! it stand. Now he y Of course, just as this war Indus- try is r< t tries board has ordered a stoppage of f?.r 'i n( w . o . -w . , ,n short sales, it has the power to rescind wjj| al)j that order and again throw prices on whethei lt the mercy of the gamblers; but even contlnu that can continue but a short time. 1 h\lt.F*'J ' nomic r Just as soon as the necessary ton- to doul y nage is available, and while the ton- higher ,a nage is becoming available, mills of caj. kI England, France, Italy. Germany, Aus- jn <'fl.rn r. tria and elsewhere will be getting in rment II shape, the corner now held by Ameri- front th .. can spinners will be broken, and prices ' . , was no f. will mount m a way that has never nation a been known. over th 5t The next move of the war industries s,'l'ur{'^ board, if it is not out of business with- (j' lK in the next few months, will be to aunts ; j. cheek the higher prices in the interest brinj of the cotton consuming public. wavs be ,j, As we see the thing now, it is quite n.st__n, ls possible that before a great while it get pro i,l will be deemed necessary to ration out f'<"iditi< I, all the raw cotton of the world at a Taken'1 maximum price to be established at porous least by a congressional commission, if country not by an interallied agreement- is s,r0" ! ? , , ,, , , 'ng sati Hut in the meantime, it is up to un(j| it those who have cotton to hold, hold 10 hold. [IS ii. 1 1 Fraiv After War Political Conditions. u,,. erf [is This is one of the biggest subjects mouth rt there is just now. and The Enquirer < id has no purpose to attempt an exhaus- given ir Id tive discussion of it in this article. '''"i ^ uf It is merely our purpose to throw a earners pr little light on conditions, social and 3'tU.t (?. political, as they exist in several of the ' lo' ?r recently warring countries, more espe- ut ,he ' c. cially Germany, England and France, rtt, nl w and incidentally in the United States. '"onstiti ?r We have been hearing more from ,h'lt lh >d the Holshevikism of Kussia, of late, t- than from any other political condi- annuun ie tlon elsewhere, and from the constant gradual If Intimations of the fear In other coun- M is tries that Bolshevikism may spread to about : IK them also, we are naturally led to In- well, ul to quire what there is in this "ism" that should be the source of so much dread. shjp or Of course it is practicable to touch graph I on Russia in a very gejj^ral way. ThtjJ] ment la Is not a reader of The Enquirer how- pJan{!au ever, who does not remember the time grand i 10 when the very name of Russia was a streets synonym of despotism that suggested >r the knout for any poor creature who <-olioeti v offered the slightest disobedience to vunia ii masters of the nobility, and Siberia to state $t all who were known to even want to cj> improve conditions in the direction of \V|U ap 10 popular liberty. There is very little Amcric 1,1 education among the Russian masses, ('cr,"jtr )r and not as much as there ought to be '("'boat t0 among the upper classes; but the fault meetint 10 has been with the masters who needed instead their fellows only as servants and who ''' 11 piliagm would not tolerate the development of were at intellects that would eventually make three w their poor and ignorant possessors free. "r 0,11? 10 It is not difficult to see how the over- po^yr s, throw of the despotism of the czar envoys n should have soon been followed by the arnljsti< ,s overthrow of the moderate successors v,ave pr of that despotism, and that the gov- 0jir fl'e{ ernment should have fallen into the having it hands of a class that looked upon all p'rjtisht 10 of their superior only as tyrannous op- out , pressors unworthy to live. That is why ors'hcir we are hearing of the murder of no- W|tj,in rs bles, of officers, of people of wealth, parjS {j' 0 and the confiscation of their property. thcre ^ e That these poor, ignorant people, led f..||ure by brutal fanatics, are making a terrl- j . lP ble blunder it is easy to see; but at the h t)ef ie same time It is not difficult to under- Co'ur( ( stand why things are as they are, and ovatie't that the upper classes are only reaping r" the natural consequences of their failure in the responsibility to their fellow SC el men at a time when it was theirs to _oov r_ shape things differently. K Har Germany Is by no means a Russia, n,onths 10 and there is no probability that she noctlon will ever be. There is more general ed- shaw. :i ucation in Germany than there is in jumbia. any country in the world. Every indi- ,he poa vidual in Germany has been educated jn whic r? up to his fullest capacity, and a more vjrt?ri ? I- or less common idea In this country to hov is > { the contrary, every individual has been ,h' ' free to think as he might choose. The mobiie one great flaw in German ctvilii zation has been the inability to get rid ,1 of a military despotism by which it has j,r.?(rihl 0 been dominated from times prehis- ^een w toric. nicht The ruling class in Germany has " !jff' r been the military class. Though nomi- "1, .. nall.v subject to the law this class has been actually subject only to its own , i K will. The reichstag. the parliament of n. J"' d the empire, has been allowed to play vv:ls "i" ,e at self-government so long as its nieas- fa. ures did not interfere with the powers en ' of the military despotism: but when- a" d ever that came to an issue, there came . Jle into play sufficient arbitrary force to "as. .fl l_ decide the issue against the people. Al- VPr>" va though the fact has not been empha- uracu,r sized, we do not hesitate to say that In ')?oaus'1 >- our Judgment this terrible world war a. , is attributable more than anything else r,'nK lw to the effort of German militarism to of c?u,r n retain its autocratic ascendancy over ',arn"> p the German people- By that we mean II that Germany, having reached the ...... .. point where absolute freedom of the ballot could no longer be withheld, the A.,n onu i militarists with the kaiser at their .....j' head, plunged the world In war as the *'ch only possible hope of perpetuating the ]"n,n|tv autocratic jiu?er. ann (W)0 0 According to the beat information ...or a obtainable at this time, the only re- 4 n maining members of the old govern- ?' ' *d? ment are Maximilian, the former chan- ?. cellor. and Dr. Solf, secretary of for- ', * 8 eign affairs. There Is little reason to , _ - suppose that either of them is much , n more thnn a figurehead. As "regent," ~ Maximilian is still able to speak for /j ;fu? n the government abandoned by the kni- " . . e ser, in case of necessity, and Solf, as '' s foreign secretary, can act as a mouth- n't piece of the actual government in com- . * . munications with foreign governments. , 1 But it is the Socialists who are in control, the Socialists with Ebert, the .. rn harness-maker, at their head. The Mj* ' great middle class or bourgeois, are * represented in the reichstag by what is "K'10"r known as the "Catholic Centre"; but r the Catholic Centre Is not represented More , in the governing cabinet. Although the ?Accor extreme radical or Bolshevik! element, census y the element that would confiscate the official s property of the nobility and of the combirn . wealthy, and if need be institute a there w reign of terror, is represented in the za betw e governing cabinet. It is not understood 9. The - to be in the majority. Ebert, who States a stands for moderation, for a Just gov- not exci t emment that recognizes the usefulness over 40. of both employer and employe on a tality. ii e basis of Joint relations, and who also 7.4 per tes that capital is an indiapen- T-QCA T. APPA ment of economic progress, has con.fl<*?nce NEW ADVERTISEMEI .jority of the people, and there in to believe that his pocition C. A. Turner. Jr.. No. 3. York?W confirmed later on when Ger- T f?urJle*?1 ot ,mule! _ as had the opportunity to elect ^ rlon- *** * Tress. W ill ...... iTtT. ' plications for farm loans throuj tuent assembly on a basis of a era| Interest rate no e for all the people. cent. See him at once, not to be understood that the M. B. Clinton?Has three shoats, a is or property-owning class is buggy and a plug mule for uuicl odor with the Socialists of any Bratton's Store-Advertises for owr All SodaamJ. .ghat, tall ow nersntp. r ne mum uiuci q J( Robert*. Adntr.?utvcs noun etween Socialists of the Ebert November 2Sth of the per*on*l i is that Ebert would equalize longing to estate of J. M. Robert iy due process of law. and treat Marshall R. Falls. Adntr.?Will 01 tier property owners th* same 30 sell the personal property belo members of the new order of c.^f's?v? 1 ...lm , iii T-*_ * | * a . Sum M. Cirii."~biyi tn&t tx monpy t While men like Dr. Liebnetht. Marasco disability policy scream I the leader of the more radical about i?. , would be less considerate of J. D. Hope. Sharon?For ten days v pie who believe in individual- sale a bin lot of pawnbroker clothing at about one-fourth pric said that during a controversy ?s' r-vv . j i i v. w. i York oupply to.? Has too many i 1 ^ u U? i. Laebnecht last reduce stock will make special l to Which of their Views should Deecmber 1st. A big line of I e ascendancy, the soldiers step- shoes for selection, on the Side of Ebert and gave McConncil Dry Goods Co.?This w*i ht to understand that unless 'n* special prices on ladies' ? ras put at the hetfd of affairs. ? "V * < ?(. . ,uld or..- proceed ?'TSS/ltort UKTwi dictatorship that would leave time. Also ask you to ??c then ill room for representative gov- sweaters, hosiery, ete. t of any kind. York Furniture & Hardware Co.?1 t is not to be understood that thirty days will give 35 pieces olutionary idea is confined to L. wart, Vf, cook stove sold f i rirst National Hank, lork Points and (?erntun>. for both Great portancc of a good bank in the and I' ranee have their prol>- industry- When you are a bar ml possibly also America. you are helping your community, in the war Lloyd George found Kirkpatrirk-Kelk Co.?Within the tsary to compromise With the days has received some extra go. tnlons and got tltetn to suspend ladies' coats and passes them or f their practices and demands tomers at " ,"Vn,f; ^5" .. . dresses in good style at attractive ter the gret-t crisis was over, j M Stroup Calls attention i, lias announced that the coun- weather coming and the need ady to go into another election shoes by people who must he out PW house of commons, and he. has a big line of good uualitie*. ost of his present government. National Hank. York Publisl do the will of the nation as to "J""' ?LlT^,,0o ,he cTi?.. r the present government shall Nov,""ber Ut' l?,?l * e. It is ver>' well understood igland is facing social and eco- Tlte open season for partrii organization and no one scents , d not beKin untiI DeCe it that labor is to be given far recognition in its relation to There lias been less fodd than it has ever had before. (bis yt.ar than ever before, a .? was in France, its there was , . .. . tany. a strong and powerful el- shrt'?,'"n? '* ??' that was opposed to the war has been brought about ma ic beginning because it believed scarcity of labor, e real problem of the world ,. ,A , t so muelt a matter of which time limit for the t could win militarv domination Christmas packages to the b? e other, as it was whether it is has been extended to Nov em I in the benefit and enjoyment reUltlvos ?f ?oldiors whtl htt, ilr share of what it i>roduces. ..... tat the war is over these elc- received labels front those ire Joining hands in the effort may obtain labels after next r about the things they have ul- bv making application to die veil to tie most important, merica also there Is much tin- rossueh feeling th. t labor does r.ot Sporadic cases of htlluenza per recognition. It is true that ,M)t ?u. ,liseas(. is no ,onKor )tis are different in this country , ... they are further advanced, anywhere. Tlte history of th as a whole labor in more pros- visitation in lX.s" is that tl in America than in any other after its first appearance i in th,e r,mu! in freer and It , , (? , , ;|fter u ger: hut still it is far front bo . ??. and broke out again front tit Sfieil. and n IS nm ifi'lllK hi has made still further pr <gress. over a period of several y 1 isolated eases occurring in I MERE-MENTION time, re is raising a national fund for There Is almost no eott etion of a monument, at the and nearly every warehous of the Cuarde river, commemo- country is full. Mr. <\ I* ?'< ?f the help that America has it.r of people's National i the winning of the war. Prosl- itock Hill yesterday said tl ilson is to he invited to lay the warehouse there is full and tone. The fund now amounts er? ;in. doing what they cav i?00 francs (Jovernor Catt a?e..tninodations for the fa idu, has called an extra session warehouses in the surround egislature to put into effect the m. prohildtion amendment to the The United War W'oru ition. and the understanding is originally scheduled to come e legal sale of liquor will be last night, will continue thro rd in Florida before January 1. ;,n'1 tomorrow. Thetwo ? DuPont Powder company has VV i v ni * cod its purpose to begin the Josing <cf tv\ola>s in reduction of its working force *ho cnthusiutic peace e e . ewell, Va.. until at the end of hfc?UHfl of '""Tn. V ,. w ir it will be employing only L1!?s 40V 4^Ts eonsideriblv men. The city of Hope- *1 40 '<.nn ..-u, together the result of the pow- h?If of the i>0,; rks. now has a population of 'l ih urgently desired that people The press censor- *Vi / rals('^- necessa I cable, postal and land tele- ^'lc for "I' *** lines was lifted by the govern- f Vn^'i'hllTni ihi1i!i^n f i art* sss? su, &. in the hope of taktntt part in a ^ pC military parade through the of Paris and under the famous sl?ntng of the armistl e. Triomphe de I'Etoile, which is The passing of James K. feet wide and 90 feet high marks the end of u life that ng the soldier vote of Pennsyl- worth while. All of his in n the recent election, cost the four score years have been I each. A commissioner visited York county, and, it migh .mp where there were as many with truth, in doing good. P ennsylvania soldiers. The total right, kind and generous?an proximate about $30.000 |y honest man?honest wit an airmen landed at uoiogne, and noncsi wmi me ?unu. ly. last Thursday. It is rc- was a Christian rocs witho front Copenhagen that German He has been retired for nianj crews have decided in mass cause of the Infirmities of ag j to support the national Hag been hidridden for many rr of the red flag of revolution- .. cause of a broken hip. But i army deserters are said to be in his affliction has his g German towns. Thirty-six Christian spirit made prote rested in Berlin last week and form of complaint, and the ere immediately shot. A score of friends who used to kno rs were sentenced to death by respect, admiration and love aartial When Admiral Sir assured that he continued th i Wemyss notified the German the last. A splendid spc of the naval conditions of the christian manhood was Jaiui re. the Germans are said to nedy. otested: "It is inadmissible that - !t should be given up without WITHIN THE TOW been beaten." To which the , ? ... ? . . . r replied: "It had only to come ~ An auct,?" ^ V LI. J The 420.000 French prison- i>ri? P'or^'ties belonging I in Germany, are to be released York^lie Heal Estate comp a verv few davs. according to a ?>" h< UI 'l"' A ' Ispateh During I he year 191V t as only b<en one national hank so'<' l,u" ?7! f, in the I'nited States Abra- f|t> to bo *oM th's '''ftorno? ivy, a Philadelphia mere' int. ?After having been suspei n convicted in the Federal October 4, on account of th< >n a charge of aiding his son to epidemic, the Yorkville Gra he draft. resumed work yesterday , 9 , There was a full attendance ?i itu r a oni ima mcia/c opening yesterday and the w )UTH CAROLINA NEWS various classes Is moving ale ernor Manning has paroled C. ?The general subject of 1 din. who was convicted some oates's morning sermon la.< ago of manslaughter In eon- Was the relation of God to t with the killing of Leonard onn people In the great wai in 11-year-old white boy. In Co- relation of the people and C and sentenced to two years In glorious triumph of right oi Itentiary. This is the same case jje ,n,| not hesitate to g h Dr. J. L. Hanahan was con- splendid courage and milltar ind sentenced to five years. The ments of the American peoj lupposed to have been killed as tin* American soldiers. He s ult of being struck by an auto- conduct of the American s In which Dr. Hanahan was camp and In battle heroism fly speeding- Hardin came along courage ei\unl to anything 'terward and ran into the wreck, ever been credited to hun iting to the damage that had either sacred or profane his rought. The thing occurred at he did not hesitate to sav Hardin's connection with the Americans of every class?' was not known for several days black, men, women and chili ,rd. The police found a broken measured up to their duty: bile part near the wreck. It did everything he impressed the ong to Hanahan's car, and it the victory was of God. it w sumed that it belonged to the swer to the question. What the unknown. The police ad- wrought? By way of elrct I for the owner. Hardin applied demonstration, he referred ti s cnught. The Jury considered cumstance last summer, v was about as reprehensible as British and French were hei inahan. Ho. however, was a back by the victorious Gern luable employe of a large man- and just before the Americ ing concern In Columbia and into their trial by fire, in ob< of the pressure of this concern the proclamation of the pres other friends Governor Man- America went down on Its mod the parole. It is expected, hours of prayer. He himself se. that Hanahan will soon be 10.000 of our glorious soldle also. bended knees before God._ _ edging Him as King of K submitting to Him the issi nany's OPM 10 Krance is esu- sacrifices all were rrauneii n at 340.000.000.000 francs ($68.- His name. And from that > )00) by the Paris Matin, in an the German hosts began to I. The newspaper apportions and back until finally one t as follows: Return of the in- the Herman high command of 1871, with interest. 60.000- polled to sign terms of armi francs; expenses In the pres- were complete vindication of 140.000.000.000 francs; pen- er and mercy of Almighty 0.000.000 francs and reparation had brought it all about, mages. 100.000.000.000 francs. , atin declares France must se- M1T.nui| -ruAMircn knowledgment of the debt be- NATIONAL THANKSGI imining the way in which it Is President Wilson on last aid. France wants no indem- . . . . . rotit. but all Frenchmen want l5!,utd h,s annual P"*'3 1' reparation. Germany and aside Thursday. November 28 it adds should neturn to the of thanksgiving and prayer. ' mlniumum of seven million , . . ,. shipping In payment for that 'amatlon is as follows: i>d In the war. but they have n pas been our custom t disposal only 3.000.000 tons, the autumn of the yerr In r ently. the delivery of the en- thanksgiving to Almighty Gc rmon-Austrian merchant-ma- many blessings and mercies tuld constitute only half repa- nation. This year we have s] moving cause to be grateful i * Joice. God has in His good Deadly Than German Bullets, given us peace. It has not < ding to estimates made by the mere cessation of arms, a m bureau at Washington, on un- from the strain and tragedj figures from 46 cities, with a It has come as a great trii id population of 23,000.000. right. Complete victory hai ere 82.306 deaths from influen- us. not peace alone, but the een September 9 and October promise of a new day as well, total casualties in the United' Justice shall rejoice Intrigue a rmies abroad, are estimated at nations. Our gallant armies ! feding 100.000, Includnig not tlcipated in a triumph whic 000 killed. The greatest mor- marred or stained by any p 1 proportion to population was selfish aggression. In a thousand, in Philadelphia. cause they have won Iramo IRS. [and have nobly s?rved thoir serving mankind. God has MTS been gracious. We have a , |. such rejoicing as revives and ens in us ail the best traditio rteeive ?p- national history- A new da th th? Fed- about us. in which our hearts >w 51-2 per ^ournge and look forward t hope to new and greater duti second-hand While we render thanks ier of*asum le,,US n0t '? ;ht. Owner divine guidance in the perfor or ?d. those duties, and divine mercj i of sale on giveness for all errors of act; oroperty be- pose, and pray that in all w fball strengthen the ties of f ' and mutual respect upon w njnn* to es- . . ^ ? ... . must assist to build the now ialks. then a of peace and good will anion i. Ask him tions. "Wherefore I. Woodrow off'r toT President of the t'nitod S * America, do hereby dcsignat ferings. day. the twenty-eighth day o hoe* and to her next, as a day of thanksg prices until prayer, and invite the people ill kinds of out the land to cease upon ?i- 'roln 'heir ordiiiary oceupatlo # tftoir Jipvcrai un ? .*' ? roa.?. ot*xi ship to render thanks to Hod. >uKKc?t that nations. I?r and save ? i tor show. C0L SPRATT HOM During next t'ol. Thomas H. Sprntt of of cooking infantry is tit his homo in I out the im- "n !l short furlough, ami will progrv** of for several days, after whiol >k depositor ^ |q 0amp ,)jx Now Jt ,.St.y > past tew Col. Spratt reached home I ,l;,> niKht. ami although The :e and Silk has not been able to get in di ? price*. munication with him. it ha.> > the colder indirectly, some facts that h Vw'r niendously Interesting. The colonel willed from I ICS it* state- November ?i. under orders it business on l.im to proceed to America 5i7.jS7.96. command of a new regimen the place of the llMli, which . . badly cut to pieces its the res tge snoot- terrific lighting in which it mber 1. engaged. er nulling Among the 3.2i?6 men in t * rneiit when it went into the li ,nd more which it pushed the craek i situation troops, Prussian ("iitards an inly by a baek to. aeross and beyond tl Ilindenburg line, then* Itti nineteen hundred easnalties. nailing of All the majors of the regi .vs abroad Hther bw-n. killed or woun. > . i I aptain Lindsay Mel-addon. >er30, and |,ai,y j). ptiilt up with the old >'e not yet Cnard regiment ot Itoek I soldiers, nucleus is now a major. Tin... in<- Pour days out at sea on li nursuay S|?,,tt received new the Hod signing ot the armistiee. and was ordered to Camp l>ix: his arrival at N?w York. In continue; difticulty in getting a I'urloui epidemic days in order to eome lionu e previous his mother. Mrs. John M. Sp ic disease va* jv'urtti tempt to give out Informati is an epi- who of the home boys had b ithortwo, or wounded and who hail est lie to time seathed. He leeogni/.es that .. . cuts and friends who have iv ears, witn (.P{VP(j information, will coi the moan- entertain misgivings until tin. matter straight; but being complete detailed and author ? - - i n it,.. vu onimn rorniautm ihvi-iuik 0 in the thinks it liest to exercise liis iibb, ciish- crction as to what to say and 1 H-ink ,.f ,rt * >' on this subject. Mat i niation will soon I., avallab Hat e\cr> thentic form, he says. the bank- ?' to secure HERE AND THERE rniers in .. .... . ,, Mr. Oscar Allison bail M iiir conn- |a)\c's oat drill that he adve in last Friday's Knquirer. M campaign, ''.ad Rotten the drill under tli to a close s'on 'hat it hcloiiRcd to anot URh today and promptly returned it to xtra days Mr. T. Dunlap of Yorkv he virtual who was among the visitor! ction with yesterday said that he had re itions and celled a h Iter from his brut I Saturday oner Itobert R Dunlap, ftup 'ted only pany. llstli Infantry, some less th:in 'he other side. The soldier d for. and was quite well and up to the the entire his letter was written ha< ry to pro- through the scrapping w Incurred, scratch. "I am sound and het >us effort happy as a June bug." he ?; id there is "The Kings I'reek section war tafA, Auflfcy. IP few cases of i raise the been provaTcht there* dir efore the epidemic," said Mr. Marshal was among the visitors in Kcnnedv yesterday. Mr. Falls has jus hm been etl from an attack of the dis lore th in self' *>>*ono ?f family hai spent 'in "\*? a,ul t,horoe 1 f, w <'a" t be said wa'te Proi'le of his eonimiu le was up- >:ro.,'s probably suffered mi absolute- whites. h himself "I can't say too much in pr: That he V. M. A. and the Amcri ut saying, Oross says Wagoner Kllie (!. r years be- llsth Infantry Thirtieth Di e, and has a letter to his mother, lonths be- Brandon Is recuperating fro 1 not even shock in a British hospital. beautiful t() a young lady with the It st in the who has just come over I hundreds states." he went on to say in w hun, in "If was good to talk with may feel from home.' e same to On his farm on the eastern cimen of of Yorkville, Mr. 1\ W. I.ove I i-s R. Ken- of cotton, planted in two which very forcibly demons) productive qualities of on 'N. over the other. There have . . pickings from the field. On ?re and j,as pro(ii,ced about all the si to tne tj,at |t wjj| prouucc, wnne or * ?to or there Is yet ?|Ulte a good | tic Realty 0jM.n cotton ami many unotx rty to be tl)a, w,j, yi.t ,lt. ,)ick<.(] ir verr prop- heavy frost doesn't catch It " couple of weeks. ^'InfluenLi "When do you think you ded school t,01,V^ for f^'v, i|,11th" ,?1uor>' mornine soldiers of \orkville and vie at the re- ,iavc beon home on furious! orl- of the 1110 Paat f( w ?,a>'s- 1,1 me nie..iv answer is, "couldn't tell I Don't have any more idea t Rev. J I,. have and maybe not as much it Sunday boys in Washington are run he Amerl- cm| the game. Of course i f; j1"" JJ]P terested and we want out as .oil lo the ,KM4sd,|(. nmj then some. Still l ir ?>, business to wait until we get v?aehipve pi,ce of bluo haper. By the . I about the cotton crop in Yor aw in the Is fu" or JuMt a,,out a hu,f oldiers In "Absence of so many of t , sacrifice, bucks overseas, scarcity of that has' realization of the fact that th lanity In is in war and therefore everyl ttorv, and behave and work is attributed that all 1st rate J. F. Wingate of Catav ivhtte and ship as the reason why he ilren have very little to do these days, hut above Ing to Magistrate T. B. Glenn fact that ezer he has in a measure "kn as an an- so far as the legal end of hit hath God is concerned because there i imstantial to do. "Besides his cotton h o the cir- is more profitable just now .hen the says Magistrate Glenn. ng beaten tan hosts. ans went ABOUT PEOPLE. edience to . ? . . . ... ident all Davis Boyd of \orkv.lle, w knees In ,or in Hoek Hill, on Sundav. had seen Dr. J. J. Glenn of Camp rs, all on visited his family In Yorkvilh acknowl- Claude Porter, formerly of Ings and and now of Cast on ia. was je of the here Sunday. ^ "hnn'r" M'ss Annie Stevenson of \V roil hnek has ,akon 41 P?s'tion ?? pr ' na*l" the Bethany school, week ago was com- vfr- anJ ^,rs. J. W. Smith fin*, w l have received inl stice that ? - ?. , the pow- of the safe arrival overseas r:n.i u'hn *on. Claud Edward Smith. Mr. R. M. Whitesldes of Xo. 5. has received informati viwr safe arrival overseas of his s K. Wayne Whiteaides, of thi Thursday fantryon settinsr Robert M. Finley of York been graduated from the th . as a day Rican officers' training cam The proc- Ouan. with the rank of soeon ant. . Shield Dickson, of the S. A ? , rn j the Prebvterian college at Cli 'Jja'8e been on a flying visit to hit ia ror His ^jr_ on(j j_ Dickson IT" a vll,e So land to're- Private James Faulkner. I DleajHire Corps. United States Arm v>me no fl Greenleaf. Oa.. is visiting fhe ;"7?npf bis mother. Mrs. Violet Faul l of wir Clove|- NV * umph of Lieut. Choate Quinn ami 3 brought Robert Quinn. Camp Jacksor confident bia. spent Sunday with the I , in which Mr. Felix Quinn in the Betl .mong the Hon. have par- Capt. John I. Barron, medii :h is not United States army, left Sati urpose of Camp Jackson. Columbia. aft< righteous lng some time in Yorkville. ral glory accompanied by Mrs. Barron. nation in Information yesterday was that Mr. i ir.deed Moses White is critically ill at his home tuse for on Smyrna Xo. 1. and he is expected to strength- pass away at any time. Mr. White us of our reached his S9th birthday last Friday, tv shines private Hcnrv Hoguo, son of Mr and ^j1*0 nevV Mrs Sidney Hogue of Yorkville Xo. 7. j vitn new (s or?tlonIIv 111 at the Pase Hospital at ? 5"' , % '""iimp Wadsworth. Spartanbt/rg with i. .u Pneumonia. I.lttle Hope is entertainman ? of e^' 'wr ^l9 rocoVer>". a'n1i for- ^r- '* White of Chesterfield Is in s or our- Yorkville on business. "do we Mr. R. A. Cornell of Maiden. X C.. riendship hns sncotvded Agent Sumtnev as hich we '1<rent I'te Carolina and Northstructure I W estern railway in Yorkville. g the na-| Lieutenant John R. I/tgnn. at pivs. ent assigned to a government radio Wilson. | school at Columbia university. Xew Hates of York i'ltv. returned to nis station iust 0 Thuts- Friday after spending several days In f N'ovt m- Yorkville with his parents. Mr- and 'virus and Mrs. John R. Logan. through- Misses Julia Wtlliams. Dculah Fertlutt day -nroiv Margaret Rratton. Pauline ns and in o.ajtes. Sue Meek Allison. Sarah Jones -s of wor- Friinees Allien and others of Winthrop the ruler I'oplege. spent th.e week end i?t their lio|mes in Yorkville. after having been iti.ir.intined at the college for quite a E while. the llMh Miss Martha Brandon, stenographer . ' . injthe office of the clerk of the court. on Mill. jS j.,j|| ,1UjU, in. site has been down he there since November .1. and although she 1 he will appeared to be convalescent atone time, she was forced to take her bed air.iin and had a serious attack of pnoulast Min- ,|,onla. Information yesterday, howKnqtiirer ever, was that she is now clear of feroot com- Ycr. and there is hope for her speedy i secured recovery. WAR AND PESTILENCE. n.,IK'.j-2 'hi resuming services in the Mothoisti acting , ... to take ''ls' chinvh last Sunday alter helm; t to take sus|mmled since September -9th on had been account of quarantine, the pastor. Uov. h'?s?heen *"' Mahaffey. spoke in a gen r.il way of the victory which has been won by he regi- the Allies and what it has cost in life ghting in ;Ullj money, freely admitting that it Herman ni|jl worth to the world all that it cost d others a?,| niorc, provided there is no faille muttons uli ou(. lo |(.urn SIIUj keep in ve heeii mmd the lesson which this terrible ordeal of tour years is intended to teiu'li. inent liad .,n.t for that reason, said Mr. Mahaflfey, VM led. ^all-l p,. .selected the "1st eliaptel' O*' id ( mil not Chronicles lor espeeial considerNational aii0|,. The leading thoughts in tile llll. as a excellent discourse are coi'nprt (leaded in the lollowing: s 1 ,*t'"t'l!! ' wou'*l direct your attention I'hhr h lo nninei-oiis \ietories won by l?ahiit 'upon '''* nt'iuh'S as recorded in the I d no I'tvceditiK chapters, victories so dectd. .. ed and overwhelming that even the and see heart of I >.i\ i.t seemed to lie tilled Willi ' . ' ' pride and a glowing jealously lor Ills nt to at- ,u,u,v reputation. By lite way, it is on as' to always a dangerous think 'or a man ecu killed ',as a t'cputatioll lo aped nn- '"aititain. Just at this moment Satan ill par- Sl'.:?d the opportunity to tempt David nt" vet re- <m l'"s V, I V Py'"'. i I*' provoked llilll a tin ue to "umber the people, so as to know v get the whether or not lie eould afford to vcii Xvittrout t,,,v "" ,'l<' lu'x' undertaking. Joah Itative In- protested against it. know ing it was a eases lie S'" " '"all to tiegill liglll'iag W'hetllhcsl ?lis- ,-1 l'oiihl afford to ohey Hod, wlrit not ">al 's l'"' s'n ntan>' have com- J I lie infor- '"'""I and again. This counting * I ' in an- people was like a man counting ' ' Ills money to sec whether In* will have enough l< ft to give something to Hod's cause. I once called oil a mar. for Ills offering lor missions. He took out a .. yy roll of gn en hacks and after carefully :. , ' look in-, through it a time or two. lie r il'lisor ""ally * ha ted the oldest, raggedest. j (iinii'M -ivm in ?n?* urn iiiiu V -r it v handtd 't ol,t itf the I/old's |tortion. ' I was a liltl?a surprised th;it a nitiu like that would give any at all. Have iljc No. 3 t.ftoti wondered why ho tnivv It. 5 in town "lint David's word provallod eently ro- ;?ln?t Joali and tho soldiers In all tier, \\ag- israol woro counted. 1. took nearly ply Coin- ton months to do it. and every tnowhore on im.nt of that time was proclamation of said ho distrust in tJod in that ease a mistime that id-u-iinr of oontidonoe In humnn 1 passed strength, of course that was very ithout .a displeasing to Cod. Ho had given vie ilthy and torv after victory l>y his own |?wor > Id. and might, and now to see David's has been proud heart turning from trust in God llu have to trust In armies was displeasing tp . _ ring <l>o d>od as MMh always is: for tt menns Falls who the sure downfall of all who practice Yorkvillo. It. Therefore, David and his profile t recover- ninsl lie taught a lesson, 'So the ease him- Lord sent pestilence upon Israel, and 1 it, how- there fell of Israel seventy thousand cs among men.' David then saw his sin and relity. Ne- pented in sackcloth, he and his leadjie than ing men falling down upon their faces before God, and the pestilence was liscoftlie stayed. can I Jed Now. as I have often said during It ran don. I"18' twenty years, something: must vision in '""'''e this world to Its senses.?to a Wagoner recognition of God and a sense of our n, ;i shell defs-ndenee upon Him. Many have ... talked heen thinking this awful war would ed Cross that, but two months a go this war From the w:is "'"'tit to close and thousands had his letter wnreely been touched by it. and in the woman nature of things. tnany would not be for a long time yet, While millions have been prostrated in the dust with the outskirts |0ss of all they had. others were actios a lb hi y profiteering on the misfortunes varieties, if,os,. who suffered most. I have [rates the heard of some who actually wanted e vnrjetj war to ro right on because thev been two mnhlnsr so much money out of tt. ie variety others were readv to boast of what our ed cotton rmios were doing and eouhl do. The i the oth- js_ armies did not do H. picking o- When the tide turned our army had ned bol.s seareely replaced one-tenth of the loss extremely |)V. itussia'a retirement, and yet the within a f i.)*> tunieil. True our noble I toys were arriving and we thank God for the will Bet splendid record they have made. We put to the in''' proud of all that, but In some way initv who or other God Himself arrived also. Y h during Millions of praying i? uple were In the case the 'lust of humility, confessing our sins, you, sir. a ml praying for our sons and for our han' vou cause. Then the influenza came, no The big IkhI\ Knows from whence or who, and aitig that no matter if they did. thousands wait,vc are in- "'I for coffins to be made, and thus soon as other millions were humbled and made it Is our f'"l their dependence on God. unless that little they be reprobates with neither heart way, how nor conscience, only awaiting eternal 'k count v. doom. ?... So it has come to pass that the war ' and the pestilence have done the work he young 0f preparing the way 'or the new age liquor, a .,n,j placing humanity on the right !>;<e country sjs from which to start. and it they jody must wm jjo?.p the l?-sson in mind and purI by Mnif- pOHI. to be governed l>y it. we may soon rba town- the program of reconstruction. Is having t.ut if we fall to learn the lesson or Accord- faj| t0 keep it in mind, then all this of Kbcn- ..,,st of blood and tears and pain and ocked off" m<>n< y will have been in vain and i business something else will have to come to s nothing awaken a sleeping and ungrateful usiness is tropic. It would lie the basest of inanyhow." gratitude to allow our boys to die in I'ranne by the sword of the German foe. or our own countrymen to die In ^ America by the saw of the pestilence that walketh in darkness and wastcth . at noonday and then so soon forget as a visi- nnij (j,.U|t, ,]0wn to the same old progrant of a mammon loving, tlmescrvJackson. jng, s: Iflndulging generation that has e Sunday, had its day, been weighed in the balYorkville ante and found wanting. God must is.a visitor recognized and his plans adopted :ts the program of the immediate future. Nun-horn Al"'' we ready to begin? Are we ready nr.i ?i begin now, without waiting for ' something else to remind us? Hut this incident was also the of York- menns of learning another very imformation j>orfant lesson. An offering had to be of their made and Oman proposed to give fVit-iil ill It 1 u IhtviuVtincy mqphini r\'. Yorkville including the oxen and the wheat fot on of the thin purpose free of charge. Btit David on. Lieut, said he would not offer to Gqd a sacrli "2d In- flee of that which cost him netting. He would buy it all at the full price vuie has Thus we are taught that the essential ird Porto f-l**rnr-nt of an acceptable offering is p at Sun ,hft clement of sacrifice. It must cost. rl liputVn- How many of us give until we actually feel it? How many of us actually deny ourselves of something in'order T- to give? Thank God. I know several nton, has who do that very thine. But some I i parents, foar have never done it yet, and O. on l ork- how much they are missing. y MCamp LOCAL LACONICS family of Influenza at Sharon. kner on There Is quite a good deal of influenza in Sharon and the country surI Private rounding, eight or ten new cases havi. Colum- i"K developed among the school chilfamily of dren within the past three days, tany sec- Gin Output to November 1. Joseph M. Taylor, special agent for ' cal corps, the census department, reports the irday for number of bales of cotton ginned in >r spend- York county to November 1. at 21,900 He was bales, against 14,781 bales to the same date in 1917.