Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, November 29, 1918, Image 1

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^ ?KKI-WgggL^ L. M. GRISTS SON'S, Fubllsbers. ' % cjfamilg Jtnrspaper: ,Jtor promotion of th$ political ?orial, ggmnltural and Commercial ^Interests of th$ peojfty. | TE SINGLE COPT, PITS CENTS. ESTABLISHED 1855 "" YORK, 8, O. FR1 DA.Y. NOVEMBER 29. 1918. >TO.~9b THE TERMS OF PEACE Able Senate Leader Discusses tbe Situation ALLIES MUST DICTATE CONDITIONS The All Important Consideration Is to Fix Things So That Germany Cannot Again Disturb the Peace of the World?Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Gives His Views as to What Must Be Done. liowlnnd Thomas in X?-w York World. J The forthcoming l'eaee Conference will figure in iiistory as the most momentous conclave of the Christian era. It Is callcil on to deal with issues and causes of vital significance to mankind. The resfionsilniity of making ?\er the tiuif? of Kurope is hut one of its duties. The great task is to make a fieace that will he permanent and secure. As the time approaches for the conference of all nations to gather at Versailles there grows an appreciation of the magnitude of the problems that confront them ami an apprehension ot the many and diverse antagonisms that must l?e reconciled if the .settlement is to r? move those perennial clashes <d interest from which wars arise. No men prolialily ever faced a set of conditions more difficult of theoretically perfect solution or heset with more potential chance of wcllnieul error which only the developments of the future can fully reveal. -? - - ? ' 1..1.1 TllOliUIl MIC fllCHI) llllil . >< uunni his anus. the air still seethes with the hales engendered by the deadly conlliet. And. furthermore, new orders and new agents are arising demanding to he heard and heeded in the settlement. When men or nations are highly emotionalized they tend to rally round phrases. Certain of the great points of the forthcoming delta to are crystallizing into catchwords. (>n all sides one hears id' the freedom of the seas, the doctrine of self-determination, the lowering of economic harriers, the social equalization of subject people, elimination of armaftieiits. the abolition of |M?verty. a universal eight-hour day. and other admirable and desirable formulas for the attainment of universal amity, comfort and happiness. These are appealing principles. They may prove regenerative instrumentalities and effective stabilizers. However, certain main issues, wholly unthforetie.nl and practicable, do confront the men who arc to gather in Louis's XIV's old |ialace. To these Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, whose position as ranking Republican member of the foreign affairs committee of the senate renders his views of the ? - - highest haportanco singly anddiroctly addresses himself. In an interview to the writer last Friday Senator faidge set forth the essential conditions mm musi i?- w??cchIwI by Germany am! her allies bofore the world can settle down again to the tasks of |tonce. He said: "(Seriuany has agreed to an armistice which in its terms is equivalent to an unconditional surrender. The peace is still to be made. It will be a long and difficult task, occupying not weeks lint months, for it must cover many subjects and settle many difficult |H>ints. It must be a |?oaee of exact justice to all. including those who have been wronged, ruined, robbed or murdered by the Hermans. "The lirst object of the peace must be to make it Impossible for Germany in the future to break out upon the world with a war of conquest like that which has just closed. The destruction of life and pro|?crty and the horrors of organized barbarism which tiermnny let loose upon unoffending nations must be made, so far as it is humanly possible to do it beyond repetition in the future. "For the great object there must be physical guarantees. I?ecause Cermany has announced that treaties were serai*i of paper, and we must have a is'ace that is effective whether the signatures to the treaty are valuable or worthless. As security we must hold indemnities such as the right bank of the Rhine?as Cermany held French provinces in IS?!. "In the first place we must restore ttelgiuin?not only to redress a great wrong done to a bravo people with guaranteed neutrality, but because, if Cermany held Helgium or had any control over it whatever, it would give her n great advantage front a military mint of view in again attacking both Franco and Knjrland. "Luxemburfir must l?o added to Belgium thus freed and restored, because Luxemburg must never again become a German stepping stone. "Alsace and Lorraine must go tmck to Franco without conditions and without deductions, not only because it is just and right to restore to France what was taken from her in 1S70. but because it is essential to our own selfprotection that the iron mines of T.orraino. which are said to contain flvesevenths of the German iron, must bo taken from Germany forever. Without those mines she would have found It difficult to prepare for this war. She must never have control of them ntm in. "The Italia irredenta?all those nreas where Italians predominate, Including Trieste?must tjo to Italy, be ^ .1 measure of self-defense. lilU!W wo must make it tnoro difficult for Austria the Cumin tool to invade Italy and In this way wo shut Austria out from the oooun and ntako the Adriatic safe and free. "Montenegro. Sorbin and Routnania must all bo restored to full power and Independence: again not only because it is just and right, hut because it will keep Germany out of the Balkans. "The Allies must see to It that Albania is cared for and that Greece is made secure. "Wo must have a free and Independent Poland occupied by the Polish people. It must be a large Poland, including all areas where the Polish people ore now dominant, not a small, incomplete Poland with a Hapsburg blng which would be a German Polanland for which the friends of GerIfcd for which the friends of Germ^V are now laboring openly end seretlW?pth here and abroad. "We must have a Poland powerful enough to serve not only as a harrier to German advance to the Kast. but also a protection and help to Russia. It must he a Poland with access to the sea. so vigorous that it will he able in Central Europe to repel all assaults upon freedom and civilization as in the bygone centuries it flung hack the inxasion of the Turks. "We must have a free and independent Czocho-Slovak state and a free and independent .lugo-Slav state. They are entitled to it as distinct nationalities and they will form an absolute harrier to Germany's movement to the east. There are 26,000,000 Slavs in Austria, more than the Hungarians and Germans combined. They hate and loathe Germany and yet that vast body of population has l?< n used and killed off as soldiers to promote Ger man.v's purposes. "She must never have the opportunity so to use them again. They must he lift* iJ up to a isisition where they ran stand not only as freemen governing themselves, hut as a proIe?-tiott against <human amhitions ami th- desolation which those ambitions have brought tti?on the world. "Bulgaria must share the fate of her 'icrinnn owner: and Turkey not only in order to thwart fJermany, hut ' n aeeount of h< r own crimes, must l.e expelled from Kurope. Constantinople must he made an international ity under the control of the Allies so that the Straits and Dardanelles shall ever he open to the commerce of the world. "The oppressed jieople of Asia Minor. the Armenians and Syrians, must l>e protected and Palestine must never again turn to Turkish rule, hut. by g? neral .accord with the announced British policy, must he turned over to the Jewish isople to protect the holy places ol hoth the Jewish and the Christian religions. The independent A rah kingdom of Mecca must he recognized and sustained. "Itussia must he entirely redeemed from C.erman control. No part of Itussia must he allowed to remain in (Scrinany's hands. We cannot permit that vast country to he used hy (Jerntany as a sourct ol supplies which would enable Iter again to enter into war. It will he the duty 01 the Allies to see to it that the rights and freedom of the Lithuanians, the Letts, the Ksthonians and the Finns are guarded and cared for. not only because justice demands it. but because we must see to it that Cermany has no control of the Unltic. "At the same time we shall he able to exact not full compensation, not adequate redress?that is Impossible? but some measures of compensation for the wrongs Germany lias done and the crimes she has committed at sea and .in the lands which iter armies have overrun. "So far as i?ossil>le the things which Germany has taken, like works of art and articles of vntwe, -tnuwfjfr * r?-~ stored. This work can never be complete, for Germany combines in happy proportion the methods of the lowest city thief with those of a barbarian conqueror, and the pecuniary compensation which must be made to Belgium and the other countries cursed by the German presence must be sought not only in money, but in her colonies. "These colonies should bo taken from her because they would aid her in developing a navy and a commerce which might again threaten the pence of the world." UNITED WAR WORK. Remarkable Campaign Netted Over $200,000,000. Total subscriptions of the I'nited War Work campaign were $1*03.197.03S, or #3-.<>73.n3S in excess of the amount originally asked by the seven war relief organizations for their work during demobilization of the army and navy, according to an otnciai announcement last Monday l?y the national campaign committee. This is the largest sum ever raised as an outright gift in the history of the world. According to the committee every state in the I'nion. with the exception of Pennsylvania and Minnesota, exceeded the quota assigned it and confidence was expressed that these states will he "over the top" when returns from Philadelphia and Minneapolis are in. Philadelphia, a "war chest" city, has not yet made an approoriation to thv fund while Minneapolis postponed her drive until next month. Fourteen states pledged 150 per cent or more of their quotas, Arizona heading the list with 248 per cent. Percentage of other states were: Delaware. 230: Texas. 222: Louisiana. and New Mexico each. 1S6: Connecticut. ISO; Maryland. 178: Mississippi. ir.t>; Nevada. 164: North Carolina and Alabama, 160: Kansas. 155; ( corgia and Vermont each, 150. A feature of the campaign was the manner in which men of the army and navy themselves and the Inhabitants of foreign countries contributed to the fund. The army and navy gave 1618.316. China gave $1,000,000: Russia $11,000: Cuba $275,000: Japan $260."00; Mexico $111,000, and Puerto ltico $82,000. New York state went "over the top" today with a percentage of 102. when the "continuation drive" In New York city closed with the city's $35,000,000 quota subscription. John I). Rockefeller and John I). Rockefeller. Jr.. who had underwritten lacking subscriptions ?o the amount of $1,623,689. were called on to contribute $370,097 to make up the total when reports showed a subscription of $34,629,903. John R. Mott. director general of the campaign, expressed deep satisfaction at the result of the drive. "To all who | have so generously given of their time ** thp ami efforts," said air. jum, ....... .... president ami his associates to the humblest giver. the campaign committee sen'ls thanks, not for itself, but for those to whom the jrlfts will mean so much In these next crucial months?the brave men of our army and navy. King Haakon has s<mt a cor.giMulatory message to King Albert of Belgium. "Be assured," the message said, "that the whole Xorw: ?lan people s"?are the feelings of the Belgians over the triumph of righteousness." The Norwegian parliament building was decorated in honor of King Albert's) entry Into Brussels) REPORT OF GRAND JURY Floa! Presentment Touches Impor tant Matters CONDITION OF THE COUNTY IS GOOI Roads Should Be Improved?Recom mentioned of State Board of Chari ties?Complete Separation of Whit< and Colored Convicts Too Much Ex pense?No Need for Law and Ordei Constables?Salaries of County Offi ters Need to Be Revised. The finul presentment of the grant jury which was returned to the cour last Monday evening before adjourn merit, touches a number of importan matters. There are Indications tha the state board of charities has beer urging its plans for reform and itn provcment, to which plans the grant jury has given more or less consider ation. The present disposition of th< automobile tax does not appeur to bt satisfactory, and it seems to be th? opinion of the grand jurors that re> ceipts from this source should be ad ministered by the township comrnis sioners. Results accomplished in th( expenditure of the law enforcement fund do not appear to have impresset the public as worth while, and there ii an evident feeling that the presen scale of compensation of the various county officers is in need of adjust' merit witn rcreronce io me iuhcmi. labor and responsibility and the decreased purchasing power of money The presentment is addressed to Hon H. W. Memminger. presiding Judge and is signed by It. M. Bratton, foreman. The text of it is as follows: Our committee on courthouse an< Jail reports that it has carefully examined both places and finds everything in good condition and well kept. W< recommend that the front of the Jai should be cemented ten feet wide anr thirty feet long. The committee on roads and bridges reports that the bridges generally an in fairly good condition, but the roads are in need of repairs, especially thi main roads, the north and south road the east and west road, those mair thoroughfares which are being built at great expense to the county. They especially need attention; they are rapidly getting in bad shape. We urg< that some action be taken at onee by the proper authorities. The committee on county home and farm has visited this institution and finds everything clean and sanitary and the inmates are provided with plenty of well prepared food. A good cror of vegetables was being grown. The livestock was in good condition and everything is being handled in a mannet creditable to the officer in charge. "We trfso recomrriefnPtfiaf the ^rtfkefleld children be sent to some institution or to some private home, if application is acceptableOur committee appointed to inspect the York county chaingang, visited that institution on August 31, in company with Supervisor Boyd. Number of convicts present, seven whites and 1'5 colored, which, we were Informed, is a little under the daily average ol the gang for the past year. The gang when visited was situated some Ave or six miles from Rock Hill, where it has been for some time, and is stjll. working on the concrete road from Rock Hill to Fort Mill. We found the camp and grounds clean and in good condition. We consider the sanitary conditions as we found them in and around the camp on our visit exceptionally good. The supervisor advised us that arrangements for disposing of the manure at the camp had been changed and Improved, as recommended by the state board of charities and corrections. We made,a thorough Inspection of the sleeping quarters of the convicts and of the guards, foreman and other employes: also the kitchen car, and we found all these quarters fairly clean and In as good condition as could reasonably be expected of such an institution. We found that the convicts are being fed on a good, substantial diet of bread, meat, vegetables, etc. The supplies for the camp are kept under lock and key and are given out to the cook daily. A large barn has been provided for housing the mules nised on the gang. The mules evidently receive very good treatment and care, as they were all In gooil condition, considering the heavy work they have to do. In regard to the separation of the races on the gang, we v?nt over this matter thoroughly with the supervisor. He informed us that the white convicts were separated from the negroes on the work as far as it is possible to do so without hiring extra guards. The sleeping quarters of the whites is separated from the negroes by a partition some four or five feet high. A higher partition would obstruct the view of the night guard. The supervisor con tends that he cannot atTord to go to the extra expense of hiring guards for the whites alone and of providing additional sleeping quarters for separating the races entirely. We agree with him as to this, considering the small number of whites on the gang- Therefore, while we should like to see the whites separated from the negroes entirely, in the circumstances, the only recommendation we make is that the foreman continue to keep them separated on the work and in the camp all he possibly can. As to the bathing arrangements for the convicts, we believe provision should be made whereby no two persons will be compelled to bathe in the same tub of water, and we recommend that this be done. We also concur with the state board of charities and corrections in their recommendation in regard to elevating the bedding of the convicts from the floor. Our committee on county officers has examined the same and find, everything neat and properly kept. The books were audited by the comptroller general and were found accurately kept in every detail. Report of the supervisor on magistrate's dockets and railroad crossings was carefully examined by the grand jury and approved as satisfactory information. We also recommend that the legislature men have the law changed so as BRIDGE WRECKED B \ , . . , 1 France. i l also to refund automobile tax to each township supervisor, and also the $15 a . mile returned to the township super. ? isors. and main roads placed back in , township supervisor's hands. In regard to the salaries of county officers, we recommend that same l?e I looked Into by the legislature, with a . view to revising a scale of salaries^ j making such increase as they deem ; necessary. I We recommend that the state con* I stable be not retained at this place for the present, at least, as it appears that j the magistrates and constables and the . sheriff and his deputy are able to hatii die this work. * We desire to thank your honor and , the solicitor for the courtesies extend* , ed to us. during this term of the court I iind we ask to be excused from further . attendance. ROUGH ON THE REDS. Soldiers and Sailors Break Up MeetI ing of New York Socialists. I Hundreds of soldiers, sailors and 1 marines broke through a cordon of r police surrounding Madison Square i garden in New York last Monday ( night and attacked international so^ cialists who had attended a mass meet*; ing at which bolshevik doctrines wer^ in uniform charged past the police, but were pursued into the side streets in all directions. The attack on the socialists came I at the close of the meeting which threatened from the moment it began to break Into a riot. It was called ostensibly to protest against the ex, edition of Thomas J. Mooney, but the ' speakers devoted most of their attention to pleas for the release of "politii cal" offenders. Several nun and women were ar""ste<l for displaying red flags smuggled Into the garden in defiance of an .11.. I... Hvlnn T _fi r.f. num. hers of men In uniform entered the . building before the doors were locked with avowed*detf imination of preventing attacks upon the government. Scores of rist fights were interrupted by officers. Soldiers and sailors who were unable to get into the meeting sent out pai trols to round up nil the men in uniform who could be found to join in the charge on the socialists which had lieen planned to take place when the oratory was ended and the internation! Mists started for their homes. Madison Square was the rallying >oint for the military. They quickly staged an Impromptu mass meeting at which speakers denounced the "bolshevlkl." They were cheered not only by the men in uniform but by civilian sympathizers. When some one called upon "loyal Americans" to charge the garden and attack the internationalists, several hundred responded. They were driven back howver, by mounted police and m?n on foot who had surrounded the building. Realizing that they had failed in the i first attack, the soldiers and sailors awaited the arrival of reinforcements. Probably 1.000 men of both branches i of the service had assembled. The opening of the doors of the garden was the signal for a second charge. The soldiers and sailors , fought their way past the police swinging night sticks and attncked the so1 cialists. Almost instantly the square was filled with yelling, running, fighting men. The screams of women, most of them wearing red roses or carnations BRITISH CAVALRY ( i V m Ty. - S s, - ': . g -j / igpl *& V-.^fc ?T> j^s "'sfeMsga Kiceiitly :lie Rrltish cavalry ha* made gwd, sis always. The photogra i the top of a ridge somewhere In VtB Y RETREATING HUNS 3l\lll L l^-v JVH jmNT^ " ' SJS& ss&j ftrnvvj u - .;i;J. ' ? ?. ; 1 *'jf 8 mBBtm33UmKh\.c *'*"** Nmwiw Liuoa J r the Germans la the retreat In aorthero in lieu of the forbidden flaps, rose above the din as they crawled and scratched the soldiers and sailors who were hunting the male socialists. Mounted police, reinforced by automobile loads of reserves rushed from every station house within a radius of miles, struggled valiantly to clear the square but made little progress. Soldiers and sailors, thoroughly, angered by what they considered an Insidious attack on the flag they had sworn to defend, paid little attention to blows from night sticks. They were bent on getting revenge from the internationalists and many of them succeed PH. The square was cleared of milling men only when socialists by ones and 'twos and in groups broke and fled. The scrimmage In the park then was transferred on a small scale Into every 'neighborhood street. Croups of socialists soon were running madly along Fifth avenue and a Jinlf mile north and south of Twentysixth street pursued by shouting uniformed men. Most of them were hatless and coatless, having lost the major part of their garments in the scuffle. I When they went to the meeting the Linen, almost without exception wore wed neckties because red flags were nwdcr the official band. These red MPWVtf ITl? WPPUMtf'WtUIr of" tlW'Wte dters and sailors. After the battle they were cherished souvenirs. Hundreds of the socialists were badly beaten but so far as could be learned none were seriously hurt. The police had the situation well in hand within half an hour after the close of the meeting and the street had been cleared except of stragglers. GENERAL NEWS NOTES. Record of Current Happenings Gathered From Various Sources. The London Times has information to the effect that of 28.000 Rumanian prisoners in Bulgaria, only 18,000 returned, the remaining 10,000 having been murdered by the Bulgars. During the ten months ending November 1st, the United States employment agency placed 2,500,000 workers In Jobs. The service Is to be continued. The crown prince of Germany was received with howls of execration by the Dutch flsherfolk when he nrrlved at Erkhuysen, Holland, Inst week. The 1 1?- I--?I " hnmn on t hp Is. | prince nun nuncu ? >??? ? ? land of Wierengen, off the coast of Hollnnd. A B C. a semi-weekly newspaper of Mexico City, decidedly |>ro-Germnn in Its attitude, has suspended. Shortly after Luis Zamoro Plowes, director of A B C, had been threatened with death, the paper gave up the ghost. The biggest hospital of its kind in the world, with a capacity for 4.000 patients, was opened in New York on Monday. It Is to be used as a debarkation hospital for soldiers returning from France. It received more than 500 wounded soldiers on the opening day. The distinction that President Wilson made between the German autocracy and the German people now begins to loom up large. Even the German people laughed at the distinction when they thought that under the lead of that same autocracy they were conquering the world: but from henceforward there will be no laughing. No other one thing in connection with this great war will be more strongly emphasized by history. CHARGING THE HUNS " }y, gW ^ V jfBjSjw- **^> ~~ bad lis chance at the Hons, and It hai ph ahowi a cavalry troop chupni otm ae? THOUGHTS TURN TO PEACE Soldiers of Training Camps Ready for Home THINGS OF INTEREST AT SEVIER Some of the Gossip That Is Going the Rounds?Two Recently Arrived Airplanes Furnish Diversion ? Some Will Be Home By Christmas. i Camp Sevier. November 25.?"Over There." and all the other popular war songs have taken second place. There's a new one In the air and the boys not only sinn it: but they talk it constantly and think it even more than they talk it. The chorus is, "I Want to Go Home." Everybody, officers and all, whistle it and hum it and groan it and live It. And the rumors?"latrine "ope," the fellows call 'em. regarding the time when the men at Camp Sevier are to be mustered out of the service. continue to grow In number. All indications point to the fact that here will be a great many lads who ill have the pleasure of eating their "hrlstmns dinner nt home. Most of * though, if the dope Is correct, will t our Christmas dinner right here In 'amp Sevier, It will tnste pretty ood. though. It did last -year. Several hundred men of this camp ive been discharged during the past week or ten days. Most of them are from the Development regiments and were given discharges on S. C. D. ceitiflcates which, being interpreted for the benefit of the civilian reader, means Surgeon's certificate of disability. Most of these fellows have been in camp for many months, though they have been able to do very little training because of their respective physical conditions. Most of them were once members of infantry regiments. One of the principal duties of infantrymen in training is to listen for the shrill whistle of the sergeant's whistle and when that blast is heard, to "fall out" for whatever formation is at hand. If there is a registered letter for somebody in the company or the captain wants a certain man or anything else is wanted, (that Is just a little overdrawn) that shrill blast goes and the company falls out, no matter whether the men are engaged In washing their ' ars, or toasting their shins or winning pr losing in a big crap game, or what. One should readily understand then, from this introduction, that a sergeant's whistle Is as thoroughly hated as is the bugler at 5.45 a. m. I was talking to one of these S. C. D. men today who had just been given his discharge. Of course he was tickled to death. He talked of his months of army service which had come to a close and he talked of his future prospects. It all looked very bright to him, Hlu<Hli In man thaa thlrt* years old?that age when things don't look as bright as they do to the youngotop of 93 or 24. "I am going back to my wife and two kids in Rowan county North Carolina," he said to me. "I am going to work like the very deuce and I am going to give that wife and those kids every comfor{ that I possibly can. Any toy that those chaps want and which money can buy I am going to give to 'em. I have been away from them for a year and a half now and I feci like I have got to Introduce myself and make friends with the three of them all over again because of my long absence. The boy Is .'our years old. The girl is six. But take It from me. If either one of them ever asks for a toy whistle they are shore going to get one good licking. Believe me their daddy knows all about whistles. D? a whistle!" The personnel of Camp Sevier ns at present constituted, includes several thousands negrccs. There are several hundred South Carolina negroes among them and in all probability a few from York county, although I haven't seen any I know. Some of them are being employed as a camp guard. White soldiers don't like to do guard duty. Of all their tasks it Is the most despised. But not so with the negroes. According to their idea it Is great to parade a. post, gun In hand and authority to stop anybody from the general down should the party in question do anything contrary to the special or genera) orders of these sentinels. These negro soldiers have been doing guard duty for some time now and they serve as acceptably as the whites. Apropos of the negro guardsmen, this story Is being told: A certain colonel and his wife start d across a guard line near this -olonel's quarters not so very long ago. The colonel's wife carried a small ->oodlo dog in her arms. It was pretty 'ate. probably 11 o'clock or 11.30 and a drizzling rain was falling. A great big negro of a richer hue than the ace of spades in a fifty cent deck, was on that post. As the party approached he brought his Enfield to the position of port arms and called out: "Halt, who am dere?" "The colonel: his wife and little dog Fido on their way to quarters," was the reply. "Advance colonel and be recognized." the colored sentry returned. "Wife Yo' all jest stand dere at parade rest while I sees if dis here is de colonel Fido, you mark time." A couple of aeroplanes were sent to Camp Sevier from Camp Jackson a hew days ago and since their arrival here have been making a couple of flights daily. They are used in connection with the liason school being conducted by a number of French and other Allied officers in camp. The aviators drove their planes from Camp Jackson to Camp Sevier making the trip of more than 125 miles in veryshort time. They are the first flying machines to appear In this camp since its establishment and they have proved quite a novelty to many 01 mcse ieilows who never saw one of the big birds before. When the whir of the powerful motors that drive the planes is heard, and It can be heard all over camp, practically all work and action Is suspended. Everybody must have a look skyward. Quite a number of the lads, myself Included, would like the best In the world to take a ride, and are now scheming whereby we might get the chance. No doubt, though, we are out of luck on that, too. Speaking of getting discharged, a few of 'em have been telling the rest of us Just what they intend aomg as soon as they are given their blue bits of paper. Matty O'Brien was talking to us this morning. Matty is an Irishman and halls from some little town j in Massachusetts. He's the laziest lad I ever saw In my life and that's saying a lot. He's got a job here in the army as orderly to a captain. That's the laziest job in the army. He has failed to make good on that, because just this morning I heard the captain bawl him out and tell him among other things that he was so lazy and slow he would be out of luck in a snail race. "I'll draw twenty or thirty and maybe more when they hand me my walking papers." said Matty this morning. "That's in addition to a ticket back to Massachusetts. I'm going to take the money and go down to this Imperial hotel in Greenville and hand it to the clerk for a room. And I'm going to tell him he better by golly not wake me up until the room rent's due again. Say. fellows, won't it be greet to be in a bed where you don't have to worry. about reveille?" The top sergeant in my outfit is an old railroad man. He's going to tap the general manager for a ticket sufficient to carry him on a tour of the cpuntry for a couple of months. Then he Is going to railroad again. Another lad who halls from the mountains of Tennessee, to going l?ack right away and start to raising corn, which he will convert Into whisky, "same thing I was doing afore the draft got me." Another soldier in the outfit is going to South America and is now looking for some sure enough buddy to go [with him. The little Jew, Abraham Cohen, is going back to "Noo York" and into the "Joolry" business in time to catch the soldiers coming back from overseas. There are twenty or more Jews in this camp and Matty O'Brien, who is always kidding our Jew. told him that an order was already out whereby all the Jews in camp by the name of Cohen, would be discharged this week and given $1,000 'n cash. Cohen believed it for a whole day. However, he's going to run the "Joolry" store anyhqw. Being a Jew, he's got a thousand tucked away somehow. Some of the boys are going to do all kinds of wonderful things. But the most of us will make a bee-line back to the homes from whence we came. Will we be glad to get back? Oh. shucks! Does a duck like muddy water; or does a Jack-ass like hay? Jas. D. Grist. THE AMERICAN SPIRIT Does Not Consider Danger In Relieving Distress. Here is an extract from a letter from Sergeant McHarg Davenport, a friend of John R- Hart, Esq., of Yorkville. Young Davenport trained at Camp Wadsworth, and went to France as a member Machine Gu**ojapan y, 27th Division. He Is a N'ew Yorker and a very wealthy man. by the way. He has visited Mr. Hart at his home in Yorkville on several occasions, and a number ot xoiKvuie im.upithave had the pleasure of meeting him. The letter was sent originally to Mc- , Harg*s family in New York, and through them the copy came to Mr. , Hart. It makes Interesting and in- ( structive reading: France, October 12th.?Yesterday was worth all we have given up and ( have still to give up before the war Is over. I got into a town?German that , morning?In which nearly 1,000 civilians had been gathered by the Boche. , To show his feeling for these poor un- , fortunates who had slaved for him for four long years?two hours after leav- , ing he shelled the town with shrapnel, high explosives and gas?without a single Allied soldier being there. I , found the place a perfect shambles? wounded and sick and dead in every cellar; no ambulances could reach them: It was frightful beyond words. The only chance any of them had was In instant flight?but they feared to leave the poor security of their cellars for the open dangers of the road and fields which they must cross to the safety of our lines. I thought the chance worth it and got thirty-five of them to follow me out through a perfect hell of fire. There was scarcely a grown-up under 70 or a child over 10 ?you can imagine my feelings for them In embarking on so perilous a Journey. An old lady?stone blind? and a boy, one of whose legs was about six inches shorter than the other, and a baby carriage, loaded like a furni?ii?-o van n-nro mv psneclal charges. It was a miracle; we got them through three kiloB of It without a casualty? the old blind one clinging to my arm and the lame boy stumping along beside me?the bravest of the lot. Damn the Boche! The Inhuman treatment he accorded those poor wrecks of humanity during the four years he crushed them under his Iron heel make hell too kind a place for him. October ISth?I believe now every unspeakable thing?every atrocity accredited to the Boches. When the time comes that I reach my first Boche sniper or machine gunner, though he holds his hands above his head and begs for mercy I shall accept no surrender and feel only compassion for the bullet which must leave the clean chamber of my pistol to enter his black heart. Yesterday morning I went back after more civvies, encouraged by my luck of the day before. An English sergeant went with me and we found about 200 with the courage to risk all upon the road. We set out?the most i tragic procession you can conceive. For the moment It was fairly quiet. Hardly had we reached the road, however. and were under observation from the German lines, than I heard a shell approaching and yelled for the crowd tn v?tt? Tt Innrieri ten feet from the road?then another and another?the third directly In the center of the road among the abandoned baggage. I fully expected to see at least a dozen dead: though thirty feet away my spirals were burned and torn by the flying shrapnel?but all escaped In some miraculous fashion. A dozen shells fell within a radius of fifty feet in less than fifty seconds, the dirty Boche was so keen upon the scent A half hour later I started my little band for safety onoe more?this time in groups of four and five. The only way I could reconcile myself to the babies going was to cany them Uiyvcil, tuiu A ?? A V?h*4 WH you. Thank Ood we made It once more?and then several times more? my last Journey with a little chap of five, whose hand was already torn by shrapnel. He was a plucky little beggar, and I never had a whimper out of him. Late in the afternoon we had the stretcher-bearers up and more civvies were coming out, and tonight the town is tenanted solely by the dead. Late in the day the sergeant and I pushed on to another town held by our advanced outposts and there saved three brands from the burning?one a lad of 18 who had remained hidden in a cellar during two years of German occupation. His tale of their cruelty would horrify the most war-hardened of us all." LOVE THEIR KING. Touching Demonstration by Wounded British Soldiers. Thoiv were scenes of wild enthusiasm in Hyde Park. I<ondon. last Saturday afternoon during the king's review of the "Silver Hndge" men?those who had served in the forces and since "" c "ciii ui.ii nurKcu on Hccouni 01 wounds nhd other physical disabilities. As King George, with the prince of Wales, the duke of Connaught. General Sir William It, Robertson, commander of the forces rode past the lines, the men forming three sides of a square, there were tvmarkable demonstrations of loyalty. When the king reached the third section the men broke ranks and crowded about him. grasping his hands. Others surrounded the prince of Wales, and the duke of Connaught and shook hands heartily with them. In the meantime other discharged soldiers gathered around the carriage In which were the Queen Mother Alexandra and the Princess Victoria. The men cllmed on the footboard and the : ok of the vehicle in their eagerness to shake hands with the royal ladies. "God bless you, dear boys," exclaimed the Queen Mother as she shook hands with as many of the men as she could. An attempt was made to take the horses from the carriage, so that the men might pull It themselves, but officers and mounted police persuaded them to fall into line again. The king then rode to the saluting base and the men marched by. In his address to the m?-n the king said: "I am glnd to have met you today and to have looked into the faces of those who for the defense of home and the empire were ready to give up their all and have' sacrificed their limbs, sight, hearing and health. Your wounds, the most honorable distinction a man qin bear, inspire reverence in your fellow countrymen. May Almighty God mttlgate your sufferings and give you strength to bear them. As your king. I thank you. We all honor you, and admire the ungrudging wtv In which von have done vour Joy with happiness the peace you have so hardly won is the most earnest wish of my heart." King George has sent the following message in reply to a telegram of congratulation Bent him by the Navy League: "I sincerely thank you, Mr. president and members of the Navy League, for your loyal congratulations on this triumphant day of our navy, when they received the ships of the surrendered German fleet." The navy league has placed a wreath on Nelson's column with the inscription: "On the occasion of the surrender of the German fleet the Navy League placed this wreath In triumphal memory of the gallant officers and men of the British navy, the naval auxiliary service and the mercantile marine, worthy descendants of Nelson and his comrades, who laid down their lives In defending the liberty of mankind." NO PLACE FOR NEWSPAPERS Bolshevikiam Dots Not Want the Light of Truth. Newspaper men haw suffered more than any other class of Russians from the Bolshevik regime. They are the ones absolutely unable to find employment and who are condemned by the Bolshevlkl to literal starvation. From the first day the Bolshevik! assumed control of the country fines, mprisonment, and suppreslon of paper were more frequent then even in the worst periods of the emperor's rule. The fines imposed by the Bolshevik commissars were incomparably heavier than in the old days, when 3,000 rubles (31,500) was the maximum amount. They fined papers 20,000 rubles for publishing war news without permission and one Moscow paper was fined 30,000 rubles for the same offense. For spreading "provocative rumors," in Moscow alone, in one day, four newspapers were suppressed, five were heavily fined and ten were indicted for tending to discredit the government." The publishers could not stand the heavy drain of constant fines, the editors dread the prospect of a more or has protracted stay In prison, and the reporters were afraid to write about anything that reflected upon Bolsheil< methods as that might be construed an attempt to discredit the government. A newspaper acquaintance of the writer, a member of the staff of one of the most progressive dallies, after having been twice Imprisoned and his paper made to pay a fine of 10,000 rubles for an Inoffensive article, confessed that he was at a loss what to do, how to write. Whenever public dissatisfaction became too pronounced the .government suppressed all non-Bolahevlk, "aoursreols" publications. This example of Bolshevik statemanshtp was emulated by the Petrograd and other Soviets so that the Russian press entirely ceased to exist. Barring the official Izvestla, the Police Gazette, as some workmen called It?published by every local Sovelt, and the organs of the Bolshevik and Left Social-Revolutionary parties, not a single newspaper is published In Soviet Russia at present. All those who made a living by wi-iting for the press now find themselves in dire straits and face poverty and starvation if unwilling to change their political faith and join the ranks of Bolshevik Journalism.?London Times. 'I Grand Duke Fried rich of Baden, Is the latest of the German rulers to renounce his throne for himself and descendants.