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. " V THt PAGELAND JOURNAL ._.i . .. . Vol.7 NO. 35 PAGELAND, S. C., WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 23, 1917 S1.00 per year Pershing to Take Flag of America to France Washington, May 18.?President Wilson tonight ordered that a division of regular troops, commanded by Maj. Gen. John J. Pershing, be sent to frauce at the earliest practicable date. This is the answer of America to France's plea that the Stars and Stripes be carried to the fighting front without delav to hearten the soldiers battling there with concrete evidence that a powerful ally has come to their support against German aggression. Announcement of the ordeT followed signing of the selective draft war army bill by the presi dent and the issuance of a statement that under advice of mili tary experts on both sides of the water the president could not employ volunteers or avail himself of the "fine vigor and en thusiasm" of Former President Roosevelf for the expedition. The army law provides for an ultimatic force of approximately 2,000,000 men to back up the first troops to go to the front. ^ hen the bill had been signed, the president affixed his name 10 me proclammation calling upon all men in the country be tween the ages of 21 and 30, inclusive, to register themselves for military service on June 5 next. The proclammation s?-ts in motion immediate machinery that will enroll and sift 10,000, 000 men and pave the way for the selection of the first 500 000 young, efficient soldiers without crippling the industries or com merce of the nation or bring hardship on those at home. Even before the bill was signed, the war department announc ed that the full strength of the National Guard would be draft .i-~ TT?._ j o- - iuiu me uuiieu oiaies army beginning June 15 and concluding August 5. Orders to bring the regiments to full war strength immediately accompan led the notification sent to all governors. A minimum of 329, 000 lighting men will be brought to the colors under those orders, supplimenting the 293,000 regu lars who will be under arms by June 15. It is from these forces the first armies to join Gen. Pershing at the front will be drawn, to be followed within a few months bv rer.iirrintr wquoo fr/\m _w h ii\/ui lut ac lective draft armies, the first 500, 000 of whom will be mobilized September 1. gnimmiiiiiiiiinnn 1 MAKE MOP 1 OF Y0 ? Bring me your sc I COPPER and RUBI ^ day or Saturday of H next week. Will j Ej any ol these article g Cash on delivery g Mungo Bros', scales. I H*c ammmmmmmm .... . Machinery is Ready in FortyTwo States Washington, May 20.- Preparations to register ten million young men for military service on June 5 are proceeding swiftly throughout the country. Ad vices reaching the War Department show that 42 States have their machinery already organz; ed, ready to proceed with the work. Central boards have been es tablished in county and city for each 30,000 population; blanks and forms have been distributed i and Nation wide machinery stands ready to take the military census in the shortest time ever allowed for such a huge under taking, one fourteen-hour dav. All doubts as to the wisdom of turning this task over to the States was dispelled by the nature of the Governors' mes sages. A fine spirit of co operation and desire to join in the. National team work for which the President has asked in his proclamation has been dis played. Cut Out the Base ball n vjovernor rsicKett ot North Carolina talked good sense when he said baseball should be tab ooed .his year. He calls upon the people of the towns to do their Dart in producing food. Among other things the govern or said: "All forms of idleness and waste of time should be discour ; aged. I love a game of baseball, but it seems to me that the sum mer of 1917 is no lime for pro fessional baseball, and 1 think all professional leagues should be disbanded. The man who is able to plav professional base ball ought to be either in a trench or in a furrow. And the "fans" and "fannies" who hold down the bleachers can find : lecompense recreation in a corn i field. "Let the automobile jov ride be given up entirely. Surely this much of self-denial can be practiced bv ev^rv man in tUu> ? _ . ?J ....... ?" *"*state. If every man who owns an automobile would cut his gasoline biil in two much would be saved to meet the necessities of the people and a vast quantity of gasoline would be made available for the uses of war. "Seriously, men and brethren, let us shake off our fatuous com placence and give ourselves no rest until we know that we and our loved ones are secure from the wolf whose gaunt spectre now looms large against the skv line. Let us work while it is summer. Winter cometh.? T. W. Bickett, Governor.'* mmmmmmmmn 1EY OUT I UR wastf I RAP IRON. BRASS, g 3ER to Pageland Fri- E this week or any day P )ay a good price lor C $ you may have. 5 r. Will weigh on m OHN I I nnnnnnmmmmg Will Build 32 New Town# Thi# Year Washington, May 17.?Complete plans for housing 22,000 men at each of 32 divisional can tonment camps in which the war army is to be trained have been worked out bv war depart ment officials and construction work will be undertaken as soou as commanders of the military departments have designated the sites. Twelve of the camps will go to the new Southern department, commanded by Maj. Gen. ! Wood, marking 204,000 troop* assigned to that department. Six camps will be established in the central department, six in the Southern, three in the Western, four in the Northeastern depart ments. The building will be done by contract under supervision of army officers. Cot I. W. Litt^li of the quartermaster's corps hfas been placed in general charfje of con tmriion onrl ti??e nmift. MW?.vru ? t>VI 1KIO > completed the organization of his forces. In effect the project is to build 32 towrs complete with all necessary equipment and faculties. It will require;6. 000,000 feet of lumber. There will be 2,000 buildings in each encampment. These will include quarters for officeis and men. stables, kitchens, mess halls, bath houses and stpre rooms, in addition to rumerpus structures for special purposes. Each town will cover a little more than a square milef of ground, not including the big tracts of land necessary for drill ing and military operations dur ing training. ii r In addition to the c?$|on Iment, the quartermaster's de partment has laid plans for the erection of central groups of warehouses and storage build ings which will be situated conveniently as to transportation lines and will be the supply depots for the camps. Notice of General Election in Cheraw Township for Member D 1 f i) 1 ? ui uuaru cr ruDitc Works Notice is hereby given that on Tuesday, the 5th day of June next, an election will be held in Cheraw Township, Chesterfield County, South Carolina, lor a member of the Board of Public Works for said Township, the term for which Mr. J. W. Covington was elected having expired Polls will open at 7 o'clock a. m. and close at 4 o'clock p. in., and the following have been ap pointed managers to conduct said election: Cheraw?R. W. S'.ricklin, G j W. Guin, T. B Watson. The law governing General: Elections will be followed iu! every particular. Managers will pleas2 designate: one of their number to call at the Court House for boxes and instructions on or before Mon day, June 4th. Managers will select their own clerk. J. N. Stricklin. T? m * * i\. ivj. ivi vers, ! J. O. 'l'u\ lor, Commissioners oi Slate and County Elections for Chesterfield County. Recruits Wanted Recruits for the United States Army between the ages of 18 and 40 are wanted Young men this is your chance to enlist. To volunteer is an honor. To wait for the conscript law to force you is a dishonor Your transportation will he paid to the nearest recruiting station. Apply at the post office. J. W. QUICK, Postmaster. I . ?- - Facts About New Conscription Law Some of the outstanding provisions of the conscription law signed Jast week by President Wilson are: Ages of draft, 21 to 30 inclusive. Ages of volunteers, 18 to 40 inclusive. Number subiect to draft 11,000, 000 to be obtained by draft or volunteers: Number to be drawn by selective conscription 1,000,000 (In two drafts 500,000 each.) Regular armv 300,000 National Guard 625,000 Special and technical troops 76.000 Total strength provided 2,001, 000 Term of Service: Period of of Emergency. Exemptions: Federal and state oflicers. Ministers of religion and the ological students. Members of religious sects opposed to war. Liable to Exemption: County and Municipal oflicers. Customhouse clerks, mail employees. Employees of armories, arse 1 -1 ? u;iis uuu iiiivv ynrus. Persons engaged in industries, including agriculture. Those supporting dependents. The physically and morally deficient. Method for Draft: Proclamation bv the president for registration. Immediate registration* by those of draft age. Selection from register of men for service. Dispatch of men dratted to nearest training camp. Provision for Pay: Second class private $25 First class piivate 31 Corporal 32 Sergeant of the line $30 and 42 Quartermaster and hospital sergeants 46 First sergeant 50 Safeguards Thrown Around the Army: Prohibition. Suppression of the social evil. Editor's Heart Fails Him Pomeroy Tribune-Telegraph. Our fellow spirit, Thad Ellis of Racine, gives us here a bit of the most glorious reading you've put your eye on for many a day: A Racine man happened on an old grocer\ hill, perhaps in 1895 or '96. It happened to total an even uouar. 1 lie goods were bought in a regular way of a Kacine store. Hearken to the happy sounds: One sack Sun shine flour, 15 cents; one peck potatoes, 10 cents; five pounds pickle pork, 25 cents; five pounds beans, 20 cents; total $1. Doesn't this bsteii liue honey dripping from the stars? 11 you care to figure ut? what these same articles in the same quantities will cost today, go to i?. The writer j hasn't the heart to. A school teacher recently ask-1 ed her pupils to write a sentence illustrating the use of the word "heroes." Little Willie handed in the following sentence: "A man sat down on a chair; there was a lack on the chair He rose "?Ex. "Is your husband much of a provider, Malimiy?" "He jes' ain't nothin' else, ma'am. Ilegwine to git some new furniture providin* he nits de inont'N; he jwine to get de money providm' he go to work; he gwine to eo work nrovidin* de job suits him. I never see such a providin' man in all mall thus." Child Drank Fly Poison i Monroe Knquircr. Joseph Osborne, the three I year old son ot Rev, and Mrs. , M. A. Osborne, of Buford town-1 ship, died last Tuesday afternoon ; from the effects of poison. The little boy by some means got some of the contents of a Daisy fly killer in his mouth. He liv ed about six hours after taking the poison. As soon as possible , after it was found that the little fellow had taken the poison a physician was called, but the telephone lines at Prospect, where Mr. Osborne lives, were I out of order and a trip of several ' miles had to be made to call a doctor and when he reached the sick child the deadly poison had done its work. Joseph was a bright boy and a favorite in the community in which he lived. Mr, Osborne is pastor of Prospect circuit and he and his family have many friends to sympathize with them in their sorrow. Funeral was held yes terday at noon and the inter ment was in the cemetery in Monroe. Rev. J. E. Abernethy conducted services. How Bob May Got Burnt Monroe Journal. Is there a man, woman or child in -Union county who doesn't know Bob May? We J can't believe that there is, and taking into consideration the rroiessor's universal popularity, we believe that his experience ' with the tabasco sauce, as told by "Bull" Hasty, will prove in ' teresling to everybody. This in J cident occurred back in the dav& when Roach Stewart, now an attorney at Lancaster, was clerk ' ing tor Mr. Russell at the hotel. . Roach had to stay up pretty late every night to meet the trains, and the cook always left him a little lunch in the stove for him to eat after the trains had come j and departed. Bob kept Roach company on these nights, and he soon learned about the little lunch that awaited the hotel clerk back in the kitchen. Then it was that Roach began to miss his accustomed midnight lunch, and he wondered why. Did the ! cook forget him? He couldn't . believe it. He kept his own 1 counsel?and went hungry. It wasn't long before he found out where his lunch was going to, and he was so incensed that he swore eternal vengeance on the 1 Professor. Going into the kitch- (1 en right after supper one night, [' he soaked one of the chicken (1 1 .u_ ? ttr. . legs lirai nit' look naa ieu ior 1 him with hot tabasco sauce; so hot thai to look at it caused ? one's e> s to water. He watched i developments. The midnight j train arrived, and while the 1 guest were registering, he saw < ! Bob slip out of the lobby. A t smile came on his face, which < increased to laughter when Boh i came rustling into the lobby a ' little later with tears trickling 1 dow n his cheeks, and uttering s howls that could be heard for < some distance while his hands 1 | grouped for the water cup. 1 Finding the water, he threw the i c..icken leg to the floor which i his doe pounced on immediate t ly. The tabasco burnt the dog's t month just as much as it did s Bob's, and it lent an accompani v ment to the Professor's tune. 1 Water failed to quench the aw ci ful fire within. Roach ducked 1" behind the desk, while Bod and e his dog fought it out together, r Time heals all wounds, but it 1< was a long, long time before Bob and his dog regained their e usual composure. It is needless 1 to say that Roach's chicken was s Imthercd no more. s Registration Day Tuesday, Jui.o 5th The conscription law w. s signed by President Wilson la t week, and the machinery f( r registering the ten millic i citizens between the ages of 2 I and 30 began to turn. Th : president issued a proclama lion naming Tuesday, June 5tli as rcgisiration day. All male citizens, white and black, between the ages of 21 and 30 an required to go to their respective voting places and be enrolled. Failure to do this subjects the person to imprisonment without the alternative of* paying a fine. The registering will be done from 7 a. m. to 0 p. m. Each man who registers will be given a cam or receipt showing that he has registered, and officers may demand to see this receipt at any time after registration day. Mr. E Walker Duvall, of Cheraw, has been appointed chair man ot ilic registration hoard of this couniv to put the conscription law into effect The other two members are the Clerk of Court, Mr. I. P. Nangum; the Probate Judge, Mr. M. J. Hough. This committe will appoint a registrar for each poling precinct in the county and he must be one of the six who were election managers at their respective poling precincts in the general election last fall. After the registration date the different registrars at the various jrecincts will send the registration cards to the county committee who will sort and classify them according to directions from the War Department at Washington The consciiplion law provides that the President, in his judgment, mav expect from the first draft or later drafts, if he deems necessary, any of those who tiave dependents upon them or who are engaged in agriculture. It is believed that the tir?t draft will be made trom the single men and, as far as possible, that they wiU he secured from the towns in preference to the country; that first the single men in the towns will be called and if nPi'llt'll th?? ci n <rl<? %><v UIII^IV U1VU \/l& [he farms will be called. A Bill We Can't Pay "A ten year old bov overheard i conversation about certain )ills to he paid, and conceived he idea of making out a bill for us own services," says an ex:hange. "So the next morning he laid his statement oi account on his nother's breakfast plate: "Mother owes Willie for car wing coat six times, twenty 'ents; for bringing water lots of imes, thirty cents; for going ten >rrands, fifteen cents" His pother read the lull but said lOthim* nhoilt il Thill Willie found on his plate the ;eventy-five cents and also an )ther hill which read as follows: Willie owes his mother for his tapny home for ten years, tothine; for his food and clothng. nothing; for nursing him hrotijrh a lontr illness, nothing otal nothing." When Willie aw the seventy five cents he vas pleased. Hut when he read lis mother's hill his eyes grew lim and his lips quivered. Then le took the money to his moth:r, threw his arms about her leek and housed that she would et him do lots ot things for her. "Mother's lull is rarely present d but it will pay each person r> think it out and over for him elf and then pay it in love and ervice."