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THE PAGELAND JOURNAL VoK7 NO. 38 PAGELAND, S. C., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 13, 1917 $1.00 per year Has Mcllwain Been Captured or Is It Another? Lancaster, June 7.?On No- t vember 6, 1915, a Lancaster negro, Tohnny Mcllwain, shot and killed Earnest M. Watkins, superintendent of the Lancaster Oil company, and made good his escape. Since then John P. Hunter, Sheriff of the , county, has been trying to locate the fugitive from justice. Joseph Hrr r>V?iof r\f nAli/>a hnra \nArl/_ ing on the case in coniunction with the sheriff, went to a little station 60 miles this side of Knoxville, Tenn.. where some construction work is going on in which many negroes are em ployed, and brought back to Lancaster with him last Satur f day night a negro who closely resembles the Mcllwain negro and answers the description of him exactly as to height. The fellow has been looked over and over by a hundred or more Lancaster folks who claim to know Mcllwain and there seems to be a very positive difference of opinion as to whether the negro under arrest is Mcllwain. The negro himself claims that on November 6 he was serving time on the chaingang at Cedartown, Ga Sheriff Hunter has offered a reward of $100 for the capture of Mcllwain in addition to $100 reward hv finv. Mannina Since Mcllwain's escape he was located and captured once at or near Pageland, it is said, and while being brought to Lancas ter in an automobile in some manner got loose from the officers and disapeared in the darkness. (Note?Mcllwain was captured by two or three citizens and Rural Policeman Melton near Guess, a few miles east of Page land last summer and escaped by working a ruse on Mr. Mel ton at the home of Mr. C. W. Arant at Five Forks, where the party had stopped for a few minutes enroute to Lancaster. For several days the negro was hunted, but made his escape.? The journal) Expects to Fight With Left Arm v-? ? V L United States Senator Tillman, who is a patient at the Robertson Blackman sanitarium, Atlanta, writes that he expects to be out in a little while and about his duties in Washington. Recently the senior senator's left wrist became infected with pyoderma, the infection extending about one third the way around the wrist and two inches in width in the centre. Concern ing the rumor that his arm had been amputated, the Senator Tillman writes to Col. August Kohn: "Have just learned through friends that the rumor has been widespread in South Carolina that my arm had been amputated, Senator Tillman once picked up a paper and saw an ac count of his own death. His only comment was, 'this is very greatly exaggerated,' and so about the amputation. 1 have not lost my good left hand, with which I write and will do my fighting, if I ever have to do, but leel on the road to recovery and will have as good use of it as ever in a little while, but 1 have been cut and burned enough to know how it feels." Mrs Parker?Now, young man, why aren't you at the front? Young Man (milking cow)? 'Cos there aiq't any milk at that end, missus, The Liberty Loan A lady of my acquaintance in the City of Washington recently adopted two orphaned Belgian children. Bv good luck thev managed to get across the ocean without being murdered by German submarines. The children are little girls, one of them 12 years old, and the other fourteen. Some time after they arrived they began to ail, and a doctor was called in. He found that both were about to become mothers. They had been the defenseless victims of Prussian officers. Don't von wont to nnnicli JMTWUI ft J VM TV Uiil l\f puuioil such people as those? And if you cannot fight them weaponin-hand, will you not fight them with your money? You can do it by buying a Liberty Bond. If the Germans win in Europe, they will thereupon attack us. Supposing that thev succeed in invading this country, they will practice upon ourselves their methods of "frightfulness." Among other things, they will debauch our little girls and chop off the hands and feet of our lihle boys. That is the way the Prussians make war. You are anxious that they snail not have an opportunity to do these things to us? Very well, then. Buy a Liberty Bond, and it will help to make such happenings impossible. Civilized warfare has always protected non-combatants?par ticularly women and children. But the Germans have preferred to practice the method of savages, a specialty of theirs being the murder and mutilation of children. They would like to do that sort of thing in New Jersey, Massachusetts, and Pennsylva nia. If you wish to prevent, it, buy a Liberty Bond. The policy of "frightfulness" is based upon the idea that inuen is guinea Dy terrorizing the enemy. Hence, whenever the Germans perpetrate a new and particularly horrid crime, they defend it on the ground of "military necessity." It is a "military necessity" to sink hospital ships; likewise to direct the wholesale violation of women and murder of noncombatants. The private German soldier is not the man responsible for these methods. They are carried out under ord ers from highest authority. Shall they be applied to us? If you want to prevent it, buy a Liberty Bond. It is no exaggeration to say that friends from hell could devisf? no nrflftirpc mnro rtiknlior.l MV mviv ut wnvai than many of those which have tieen in common employment bv the Germans inthiswm-ai the expence, too, of people who (the Belgians and French, for instance) had done nothing to incur their enmity. But the Germans hate us with a fierce hatred, because they think our munitions have pre vented them from quickly winning the war. They will have no mercy on us, or upon our women and children if they can get at them to outrage and murder and mutilate. Will you not do everything you can to keep them from getting the chance? If so, buy a Liberty Bond. Are the Germans, who do or approve these dreadful things, better than you? Thev are better in one very important respect, if you can buy a Liberty Bond and will not do so. immense war loan have been floated by the Kaiser's government, and practically everybody has subscribed to them to the1 British Aviators Hunt Germans Like Hawks British Headquarters in France, June 9 (Evening, via London, June 10) (By the Associated Press).?The manner in which the British flying corps dominated the air during the battle of Messines ridge on Thursday is one of the most thrilling and remarkable stories of the entire war. Far back of the German lines the British planes searched out troops in every hamlet, town and village. In several places they saw them gathering or march ing in the main streets, whereupon they flew down low at times and opened fire which scattered the gray clad soldiers in all directions. All pilots report that their accurate fire had a most demoralizing effect upon the hostile troops. Convoys and ammunition and supply colums were attacked while on the march and the disorganized men left their teams and automobiles on the roads while thev sought shelter in nearby ditches. When the Pot Calls The Kettle Black The Western Indians, though not fond of work,do not approve of indolent white men. The "heap white man" is the white man who works hard, and to sit and watch him while he toils seems to afford him neverfailing pleasure. | Some young "warriors" of the Blackfoot tribe sat in the shade one day watching a group of laborers who were constructing a grade tor a railroad branch in Montana. Suddenly a bicyclist, the first they had ever seen, hove in sight. He had got off the tram at the last station and was going to the fort, a little farther on. The Indians watched the wheelman without a word until he passed from view, then thev expressed their sentiments. "No good white man," one remarked. "No" declared another with great scorn. "Heap lazy white m an cite rlrv?*rt-t ."nll'l" ? u?u uv II 11 lu \Y <11 IV . Month of May Was Very Cold General summary of weather i conditions, obtained during the) month of May in South Caro ; lina, indicate that the month! was the coldest on record by j 2.5 degrees The abnormality was incident to the cold wave which swept over the State be tween May 5 and 15. Precipita-1 tion was somewhat below normal. Many of the thunderstorms during the latter part of the month were accompanied by hail in the northern and western counties. utmost of his means. Whatever else may be said of the Germans, they are patriotic. Have you less of the virtue of patriotism than they possess? If you have as much, you will buy a Libertv Bond, even if you have to borrow the monev. Do vou love your country?' I A * " " Are you anxious lor the safety of those who have a right to; you for safety and for protec tion? Then buy a Liberty Bond. The money will help to fight the battle for the free-to secure the future freedom and safety i of all mankind. You can give this aid at the moment when it is most needed. Do it now. RENE BACI1E, 1 j Russians Reject Separate Truce i i Petrograd, June 9.?The Ger man commander in chief on the Eastern front has invited the Russian armies to a separate armistice, according: to a statement by the council of workmen and soldiers made public today. It was proposed, according: to the statement, that secret pour parlers with the German leader be inaugurated, but the scheme was denounced by the council. In a wireless telegram, the council's ancouncement states, the German commander proposed to show the armies a way toward an honorable peace and a means of ceasing to wage war without a rupture with the entente allies. The council of workmen's and soldiers' delegates has in this connection addressed to the Russian army the following appeal: "The commander in chief of the German armies on the Eastern front has sent to our troops , a wireless message proposing to indicate to them a way toward an honorable peace and a means for ceasing to wage war without a rupture with the allies. The German general talks this way , because he knows that the Russian revolutionary tioops would reject with indignation any overt proposal for a separate peace. "That is why the enemy com mander in chief invites our arm , ies to a separate armistice and proposes that we should enter into secret pour parlers with the German military leaders on the the Eastern front. In his wire- ; less telegram the German declares that a separate armistice does not offer Germany any advantage. But this is untrue for, in speaking of the inactivity of , the German army on the Rus j sian front, the German general forgets what Russia can not forget, notably the Russian de feat on the Stockhod. The German general has forgotten that the Russian troops know whether the division and heavy batteries are being taken from our front. The German general , has forgotten that we ?n Russia hear the sound of the bloody battles which are being fought I on the Franco British front. He has forgotten that Russia knows that the overthrow of her allies , would mean the overthrow of j Russia and the end of her po litical liberty." , Scholarship and Entrance Examinations, i University of South Carolina. j The examination for the 1 award of vacant scholarships in i University of South Carolina 1 and for admission of new stud- i ents will be heldatthecour.lv ' court house on Friday, July 13, < at 9 a. m. Applicants must not i be less than sixteen years of age. i When scholarships are vacant i after July 13, thcv will be award ' ed to those making the highest i average at examination, provided they meet the conditions < governing the award. Annli < rants for scholarships should I write to President Currell for scholarship examination blanks. 1 These blanks, properly filled I out by the applicant should he i filed with President Currell by i Julv 6tli. i Scholarships are worth $lOC i free tuition and fees, total $158. 1 The next session will open September 19, 1817. For further I information and catalogue, ad l dress, President W, S, Currell, 1 Columbia, S. C. 11 General Wood Speaks to Negroes Last Thursday while in Columbia General Leonard Wood addressed about 1,500 negroes at Allen University. Much good advice was given the negroes, and thej- were compli men ted on the way they regis stered. Many negroes in this section have an idea that the leaders of the negro race are not backing up the Government in the war, but this is eroneous. Richard Carroll and other negro leaders are using their energies in an effort to arouse tbe negroes to a realization of their duties at this time. In addressing the negroes General Wood said: "Do all you can and in so doing you are strengthening your own position and your country's position and vou are serving the cause of human liberty" When Gen. Wood arrived at the college a student band marched around the campus playing "The Star Spangled Banner," Hundreds ot American flags were waved by the negroes. Kictiard Carroll intro duced the Rev. R. A. Vance, who introduced Gov. Manning to the audience. Gov. Manning introduced Gen. Wood as "the man who is a statesman and a soldier, who is in charge of military affairs of this department," and a "man who does things." Gen. Wood said that he was delighted at the opportunity of addressing tbe negoes of the State. "When we speak of ex am pies of service," said Gen. Wood, "you have only to look at your governor to see what his sons, acting under his inspiration, are doing. Four of them, if i remember correctly, are in the service of the service of the government, ready to serve their country. "That idea of service is the idea that we want all of you to take up. When this country goes into a war as it has done into this one, you must not think oniy of the soldier part of it. There is a great deal behind the fighting line that is to be done. You must raise food, make munitions, build railway, transports, telegraph and telephone lines and cultivate food." In the Northern States, he said, thousands of women and chil dren were engaged in the making of munitions; hundreds of thousands of others are making clothing and shoes; a vast horde are running transportation lines, while others are serving as sur [icons, doctors and nurses. "You must not have undue anxiety," said Gen. Wood, "to get to the fighting line. Somewhere we have all got to serve and prepare others for the firing line. Every man on the firing line must have people back of him who are working to keep him clothed and supplied with food and munitions and other neces sities of life. The fight part of it is going to be for men, but the work of preparation is for men and women." "Now as to registration," said Gen. Wood, "you behaved splen iidly in that. You paid a great tribute to your race and loyalty. You registered right up to the linnt and you stood the issue like men and I know you will meet all of the issues in the war in the same manner. I have seen your people in the armv and have always found them to be good soldiers." Gen: Wood told the negroes that they must adjust themselves to new conditions which will t?e brought about by the war. 'The seriousness of the war is Billion Bushels of Grain Needc d Washington, June 8.?Herbert C. Hoover's report to the government on what the United States must do to sustain i's allies with food, made public todav, shows that the allies and a few neutrals, which must be considered, required during the next year 1,000,000,000 bushel ; of cereals alone and their need:; ol meat, fats and sugar also will be enormous. Production in the allied countries and imports from other countries can meet only a portion of these needs; America must supply the remainder. America's surplus 011 the present scale of consumption will not meet the deficiency, Mr. Hoover says. America's duty is set forth by Mr. Hoover thus: "All those conditions throw on North America the brunt of the burden of supplying our cobelligerents with the human and animal food necessary to maintain their great armies in fighting condition, as well as to keep alive and efficient the families of the fighters and the great industrial army at. home. "The exports from America necessary to meet these needs which absolutely must be met if the war is to be won or even is to be carried on at at all during the next year must be immediately greater than they have been in normal times. "Our consumption must be re- > duced. This can be done first by elimination of waste; second, bv the substitution for the kinds of foods needed by the allies of food not so needed, but which we can just as well use, as corn for wheat, poultry and eggs for red meat and so on; third, bv voluntarily restricting ourselves to a sufficient and sensible ration, and if done at a little sacrifice ot preference of estate or inclination for a feeling of over repletion will be of advantage to us morally." Wise Boy a tall man impatiently pacing the platform ot a wayside station, accosted a red haired boy of about 12. "S s say," he said, "d-o dd y-y you know ha-ha how late this train is? The boy grinned but made no reply. The man stutteicd out something about red-headed kids in general and passed into the station A Stranger, overhearing the onesided conversation, asked the boy why he hadn't answered the big man. "D d d%y^ wanler see me ?-g-get me fa fa-face punched?" stammered the boy. "D d dat gig g g guy'd think I was momo mocking him." Mr. Robert P. Turner returned to his home here Thursday from the University at Columbia, where he graduated this year. noi yet realized," said Gen. Wood. He advised the negroes to cultivate every foot of land possible, produce food and help win the war. The department commander advised the negroes not "to get into their heads that the war will he over quicklv." "The American people," said Gen. Wood, "should thank Cod every morning and night be cause our allies are stiong enough to protect us while we are getting ready. "We are going to win the war, because it is for the freedom of mankind," concluded Gen. Wood,