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? : yTHt PAGELAND JOURNAL Vol.7 NO. 33 PAGELAND, S. C., WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 9, 1917 $1.00 per year Submarine Problems Solved by Naval Board, It Is Thought New York. May 5.?W. L. Saunders, chairman of the naval consulting board, announced here today that the board had forwarded to Washington plans for dealing with the submarine problem, which, it was believed, had solved the problem successfully. Mr. Saunders, who has been chairman of the naval consulting board about two month?. supplemented his announce ment by saying that while the submarine problem can not be considered in reality to have been solved until the u boats | have been destroyed, nevertheless numerous experiments had been made along the Atlantic coast with highly encouraging results which led the board to feel confident that a successful solution had been reached. "It looks as though the sub marine problem has been solved," Mr. Saunders said, "not only in theory, but on the strength of practical tests on the Atlantic coast." Mr. Saunders added that 500 inventions for u-boat suppres sion had been submitted for consideration of the board and experiments with many of them justified, he believed, ihe asser tion that a plan had been found by which the submarine peril could be eliminated. Mr. Saunders was unwilling to go into further details of the board's experiments, all data on the subject having been forwarded to Washington, but he Said the oublic had a riaht tn ha informed of the progress made toward nullifying: the depreda tions of the German undersea craft. Mr. Saunders, in talking: to a group of newspaper men, said that inasmuch as he was not dis closing details of the naval board's recomendations to the government, the statements he made were not military infor mation and would be of no in formative value to the German government. It is the board's opinion that to cope successfully with the submarine problem, Mr. Saund ers said, aggressive warfare must carried on in the enemy's territory. This included, in the board's belief, he declared, naval operations in the North sea with destroyers, submarine chasers, airplanes, nets and mines, coordinated with devices to destroy submarines which the board has experimented with and approv ed. Mr Saunders said the plan suggested to the government in voivea ine possibility of land operations. Without commit! ing himself definitely on this point, the scheme he indicated included a military offensive against the Kiel canal, which would call for the transportation and landing of any army against this important German waterway. German naval concentration points generally would be objective points in this suggest ed joint method of naval and land operations. The plans submitted to the government, Mr. Saunders as serted, was not based upon theory, sketches or designs" but upon actual tests "which have proved encouraging." The use of electricity is in volved importantly in the whole idea of an offensive. The naval operations would under the plan be directed to ward bottling up the North sea as effectively as Great Britian has blocked the English channel. Mr. Saunders alluded to the "Make Thrift Fashionable" 1 Houston's Slogan Washington, May 5.?In an appeal "to the women of the United States" Secretary Houston declares that they can do their "bit" most effectually in the national emergency by practicing effective thrift in their households. The appeal was prompted by many requests for a statement as to the service women can render the nation in the direc tion ot producing and conserving agricultural products. "Every woman can render im portant service to the nation in its present emergency," says the appeal. "She need not leave her home or abandon her home duties to help the armed forces. Every ounce of food the house wife saves from being wasted in her home?all food which she or her children produce in the garden and can or preserve? every garment which care and skillful repair make it necessarv to replace?all lessen that house hold's draft on the already in sufficient world supplies. "To save food the housewife must learn to plan economical and properly balanced meals which, while nourishing each member of the family properly, do not encourage overeating or offer excessive and wasteful variety. "Waste in any individual household may seem to be in significant but if only a single nitrton rv f ? J -1 wuiiv-v ui cuiuie iuuu, on toe average, is allowed to spoil ot be thrown away in each of our 20,000,000 homes, over 1,300,000 pounds of material would be wasted each day. 4'Clothing is largely an agri cultural product and represents the results of labor on the sheep ranges, in cotton fields and mills and factories. Women would do well to look upon clothing at this time more particular from J the utilitarian point of view. "Leather, too, is scarce and the proper shoeing armies calls ' for great supplies of this ma- 1 terial. ' "Employed women, especially those engaged in the manufac- ] ture of food or clothing, also directly serve their country and should put into their tasks the enthusiasm and energy the im ! portance of their products war ! rants. i "While all honor is due to the ] women who leave their homes , to nurse and care for those . wounded in battle, no woman should feel that, because she does not wear a nurse's uniform, J she is absolved from patriotic 1 service. j "Democratic thrift in your , homes and encourage thrift among your neighbors. Make 1 saving rather than spending 1 your social standard. s "Make economy fashionable | lest it become obligatory." north gateway of the North sea j as Germanv's hornpt'c n?ct #?rl. _ ..-w? u kivoif U1 J "rat hole" for submarines, and J said this nest must be blockaded and penetrated and its u-boat in- ] mates destroyed and German 1 naval bases also dealt with et- j fectivelv. I The naval consulting board i believed sufficiently in what hud i been discovered and Dlanned, he i said, to feel justified in notifying i the people that the submarine s fear might be allayed. The project now before the govern 1 ment could be carried out "with j in a reasonably short time," he said, 1 German and Austrian, Inrane, j Held in Jail Columbia, S. C-, May 3.?An insane German citizen and an. insane Austrian citizen are be-1 ing held in two county jails in i this state. The German is in the Richland jail and *he Austrian in the Chester jail. These two men who have been adjudged lunatics and fit subjects for insane hospitals bv the probate courts of Richland and Chester Counties, were found by a member of the staff of the State Board of Charities and Corrections, who recently inspected both these jails. The probate courts in each of the counties had notified Governor Manning as required by law that thev had adjudged these foreign citizens insane. Gover nor Manning, in turn, as provided bv the statute, has refer red the case to Robert Lansing, Secretary of State, with the request that he take up the matter with the Ambassador of Germany and Austria. Count von Bernstorff, acting on the request of Secrtary Lansing, sent the case of the German lunatic to the German Consul at Atlanta for investigation. In the passports were tendered von Bernstorff and all the German consular agents, leaving the case of the insane German in the Richland County jail undetermined. The case of the insane < Austrian in the Chester jail was i also left unsettled because of the withdrawal ofthe Austrian! Ambassador. The State Board of Cbaritiejw! and Corrections took up yesterji day with the Sfa* the Insane the making tempo rary provisions for caring at the hospital for these two insane i foreigners, both of whom might ' DOSSihlv imnrnvpd nrwlor merit. The State Hospital has asked Attorney General Peeples . for an opinion on whether or not it could receive these two ' foreigners in view of the fact that the severing of diplomatic relations between the United States and Austria and Germany makes it practically possible to ? carry out the law. j Fine Opportunity for Pageland School Mr. W. H. Hand, State high : school inspector visited the , school here a few weeks aao , i' and below is n written 1. liim to Mr. S. A. Sellers, chair-i' man of the school board: |' Dear Sir: ji Not until this morning have I l had the time for a conference' j with Superintendent Swearin?en about vour financial situa- | lion at Pageland. lie instructs I me to say to you and to your 1 people that if you will vote an ! additional two mills for the sup- 1 port of your school before June , 1, 1917, he will give the district; 1 put of funds in his hand as much j; ts the two mill levy adds to; 1 ^our resources up to a limit of j I M60. | i This offer is even belter than 11 I hoped for when I met your I :>oard a few days ago. I con- j < ;ratu)ate you on this liberal of- i :er, and I urge vou to get to < work at once with your petition 1 isking for the election. Surely . our people would not for a 1 noment think of turning: dow n ;o generous a proposition. I should be glad to have you 1 ceep me informed as to the progress vou are making. Very truly yours. < W. H. HAND. i s * Roll of Company *'I" Below is given the names and rank of those constituting Company "I" which was recent ly assigned to guard dutv at Charleston. Captain, William L. Gillespie. 1 el T * \v:ii: * ** ? oi lii,, vv:iiuiui /v. lviauoy. 2d Lt, Claud G. Hammond. 1st Sgt., William H. Laugh rige. Supply Sgt., John F. Davidson. Mess Sgt., Harvy L. Burnette. Sergents: Charles I. Pegues, William C. Coward, Herbert F. Jones, William E. Sellers. Corporals: Edward M. Han cock, John J. Tracv, Robert M. McDonald, William B. McAllister, Richard W. Seegers, William C. Baker, Harrison H. Hartfield, William G. Camhn. Cooks: John S Douglass, Parrot W. Bell. Buglers: Samuel H. Cato. Malcolm C. Baker. Mechanic: John Hilton. First class Privates: John E. Baker, Alger Blackwell, Harry ?1. Bryant, Dewey H. Burch, Jllie Cuulder, Paul Davis, William V. Gibson, Lenson C. Graves, Tarlton B. Harley, Andrew' J. Huntley, Fred Hunneycutt, Julian A. McLeod, Barnwell E. Pegues, Evan D. Vaughn. Privates: Wade C. Armfield, Lonnie E. Blakeny, Thomas A. r> * * ? Dunuy, jonn JD. (Jato, Samuel W. Camhn, Lawrence E. Caul de'r, Elbert B. Coward, Arthur F. Crapley, Frederick O. Gaskins, Ed Griflith, Earl Groom, Edward T. Gulle^ppe, John*'" Hunter, Maxie H. Jdhnson, Levy Kirklev, Baxter knight, Lonnie Lin ton, Jasper W. McBride. Thomas ^njCnskill, Donovan McManus* John W. Marsh. Roy L. Milton, Walter H. Munson, Ben L Odom, Carlton L. Phillips, Lee T. Polston, Frank Rivers, Henry M. Rivers, John P. Rivers, lames F. Railings, Dewey B. Shehane, Charles P. Skipper, Marter B. Smith, Herbert P. Terrel, Frank P. Vaughn, Will White, Therodore A. White, Harry L. Wingate, John M. Womack. Several more have joined since this roll was made. Foreign Minister of Brazil Resigns Rio de Janeiro, May 3.?Dr Lauro Muller has tendered Pres ident Braz his resignation as minister of foreign affairs. The government has received information that the Brazilian minis ler to Germany has been order ed detained in Berlin and has Drdered the detention of Adolpf Pauli, German minister to Brasi!, who is on hie way to Uruguay. Dr. Lauro Muller has been bitterly criticised in Brazil since the relations between the republic and Germany first became acute on the ground that he was pro German in his sympathies. His opponents accused him of using his influence to prevent a breach of relations between Bra til and Germany and demanded bis resignation. Dr. Muller was first appointed foreign minister in February, I'M 2, and even at that time was attacked as being loo friendly to Germany, an accusation apparently based in r>arl, at least, on bis German descent. He is one of the best known statesmen in South America and has made several visits to the United States. "I'm afraid," said the junior member of the law linn, "that we are causing our client unnecessary trouble." "Oh, that's all right," rejoined the senior member! "we'll charge trim for it." Daniels and Kitchen Enlist as Privates "North Carolina," savs the Washington correspondent of the Greensboro News, "set the first honest to goodness examples to gain recruits for the army and navy, when Josephus Daniels Jr., son of Secretary ot the Navy, walked into a recruiting station and enlisted in the marine corps, and at the same time Mills Kitchin of Scotland Neck, son of Majority Leader Claude Kitchin, went to Fort Myer, Va., and signed up as an enlisted man in the army. This action on the part of the two North I r~* 1: - - Y^uiuiiua puinois proDaDly sets a precedent for young men enlisting who could have commanded influence to secure a commission as an officer. "Nearly every Senator and Representative and others high in political life of Washington who have sons of military age, have secured commissions for their offsprings. But Kitchin and Daniels have set a most ex cellent example and one that will do more to secure real sailors and soldiers than anv other one thing since the war started, by casting aside the most powerful political influence in Wash- 1 ington and taking their chances ; along with those who have no 1 influence." Congressman Pou of the Raleigh district says: "Mv young son volunteered ' without my knowledge. By his ( OVV.D efforts, without aid from any ' one, he has secured his commis- 5 sion as second lieutenant of cav ' airy in the officers* reserve corns. ' I confess I am proud of the boy's 1 conduct," . rk;i-'. ? c?i? o 1 m iTiuiuiu ucciu r anporu London, May 3.?The Chilean minister to Germany has demanded his passports, according: to a Central News dispatch from Amsterdam. The dispatch says: "A message received from Berlin savs the Chilean minister to Germany has demanded his passports and announced a rupture of relations between f Chile and Germany. The news caused the greatest annoyance in political circles where efforts were being made to avoid a J break with both Chile and Ar r gentina in order to preserve J some friendships in South America. "Instructions have been given for Chilean citizens to be treated , as enemv citizens. The dis patch adds that it is informed that it will be impossible in the , present circumstances for the ' Chilean legation to leave Germany," Notice of Ejection State of South Carolina, County of Chesterfield. A petition of a required num- a ber of Resident Free-holders and Qualified Electors of Page- 5 land School District No. 43 having been filed with the County Board of Education, in accord- a ance with Section 1742 Civil t Code 1912, requesting an elec 1 tion on the question of an increase of 2 mills to be used tor y general school purposes, there- g fore. g It is ordered that an election be held in the said district, state and county aforesaid on the t 22nd day of May 1917 in ac i cordance with Section 1742, f Civil Code 1912. t By order County Board of Education this 2nd Day of May, r 1917. c R. A. ROUSE, County Superintendent of Ed s ucation. \e Rockefeller Fund For War Pur*, poses New York, May 3.?Rockefeller foundation announced to night that it has appropriated $475,000 to be spent in the Unit ed Stated for medical research and humanitarian aid as the beginning of its work in the war with Germany. An additional $400,000 will go to continue relief activities now bein^ carried on board. To aid the work of the Young Men's Christian association in the training camps to establish for the army and navy $200,000 has been appropriated by the foundation. An appropriation of $200,000 also has been made to the Rockefeller institute for medical research for the Carrel hospital to be established during the next few months in connection with it. This model hospital of 100 beds under the direction of Dr. Alis Carrel is to be used to teach the new methods of surgical treatment for infected wounds. Proclamation I, D. P. Douglass, Sheriff of Chesterfield County, deem it wise in the present crisis in this formal proclamation to assure all residents of foreign birth that even in the event ot the United States becoming actively involved in the great European war, no citizen of any foreign power, resident in Chosterfield eounty, need fear any invasion pf his personal property rights ;o long as lie goes peaceably about his business and conducts laimself in a law-abiding manner. The United States has never, in any war con! arty of any foreign resident unless by his own hostile acts he made it necessary. I take this formal means of leclanng to all foreign-bom residents that they will be promoted in the ownership of their property and monev, and that hey will he free from personal molestation, so long as they abey the laws of the State and nation and ordinances of the owns. T iir<ronflir x uIKV.uuj icvjuum <111 uur people refrain from public discusiions of questions involved in he present crisis and maintain 1 calm and considerate attitude ovvard all without regard to heir nationality. Let it be understood that jverv citizen owes undivided alegiance to the Flag, that he is ixpected to loyally fulfil all obligations which citizenship ind residence impose upon him, ind that any act, however .light, tending to give aid or romfor! to the enemy, is treason, or which severe penalties are orovided in addition to that ninishment which public opinon inflicts upon the memory of til traitors in all lands. D. P. DOUGLASS, >henff of Chesterfield County. Little sister had not been well, ind had been especially trying o small Johnny all day. Final y ms pa lie nee came 10 an enil. "Mother," he asked, "don't 'Oil want little sister to be a :ood wife like you when she [rows up." "Of course," said his mother. "Well, you make me give iverything to her 'cause she's ittler'n me. But you're littler'n ather, and you give him the est of everything." And, before his mother could nove, Johnny tore the train of :ars from the screaming baby. "If we don't begin to train her, he'll be a terrible wife," he said is he slammed the door.