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THt PAGEuIlD JOURNAL Vol.7 NO. 42 PAGELAND, S. C., WEDNESDAY MOANING, JULY 4, 1917 $1.00 per year Mr. Raynor Write* from Belport, N. Y. Mr. Jas. W. Raynor, who. with his family, spends each winter at his home near Pageland, writes The Journal an interesting: letter from his summer home in Belport, N. Y. He states that they are all well, and that they are looking forward to spending next winter here. In the letter he tells something of the big army cantonment locat ed at South Haven five miles easi of Belport, and an aviation school about the same distance from town. He says from two to five machines may be seen in the air at a time from 4:30 a. m. till darkness drives them in any day when the weather per mits. For the safety of the fly ers the machines are carefully inspected and the engines com pletelv overhauled after sixty hours of flight. Under separate cover Mr. Raynor sent one of his local papers which gave some of the details of the army cantonment construction. From this paper the following is clipped: TAn idea of the magnitude of the job may be gained from a | prlnnrp at thp material odimolo/l I ? v Luutv>& lui vg&iuiaivu for a typical cantonment like the South Haven-Yaphank site. "Lumber is the big item, some 26,0bi),000 feet, or 2,325 carloads being the requirement. Roofing nails alone will fill one freight car. Crushed stone for the roads will make 812 carloads. Here some ot the other items: Twenty-eight thousand squares of roofing, GO cars; twenty carloads plumbing; 192 carloads of tanks, heaters, gtoves, ranges, piping, electric materials, re frigerators and the like; railroad materials for five mile's of track, divided into 30 carloads of lies and other timber, 20 carloads of spikes, rails, fish plates, etc, and 114 carloads of ballast; 10 car loads of electric light poles. wires, insulators, etc. Materials for 12,000 cubic yards of con crete will take 70 carloads ol cement, 350 carloads of stone and 175 carlords of sand. "The men of the cantonments will sleep in double deck berths. This means there will be 37,000 separate bunks, each with its mattress. To transport the mattresses, 125 cars will be required and the bunks will take 62 more. Water and sewer lines will make 65 carloads each and 150 car loads of hospital equipment will be oecessary. Three carloads of screens are nlsn inrliwl^H in tl>o estimate, as are 20 carloads of construction tools. "Each cantonment will con tain close to 1,CKK> buildings, the typical company barracks being a two story structure, built of wooden frame, covered with matched boards. The roofs will be covered with prepared roofing. They will be well ventilat ed with flues, lighted bv electric ity, heated in the north by steam and in the south by stoves. Each will have a kitchen and a mess hall." Eighty-Seven German Merchant Ships Will Be Placed In Service Washington, June 30.?Eighty seven of the German merchant ships seized in American ports at the outbreak of war were turned over by President Wilson to the shipping board today for operation. The other fourteen already are in possession of the navy department. Title to the vessels was vested in the President in a resolution passed by Congress in May. Many of them already have been repaired and put into ser vice by the shipping board, Four Killed In Seaboard Wreck Raleigh, N. CM June 30.?G. S. Jacobs, twenty years old Sea board Air Line railway telegraph operator at Franklinton, N. C., under arrest charged with manslaughter in connection with the deaths of four trainmen in a head-on collision between two fast freight trains near Franklinton early today, was in the Wake county jail in this city tonight, having been brought here for safekeeping. Jacobs, earlier in the day, was convicted in the mayor's court at Franklinton of drunkenness and disorderly con duct. Although no threats againsl Jacobs were made openly a! Franklinton, feeling was said to be high, and the authorities deemed it best to remove him to Raleigh. . | Both engineers, H. Gaskins, of Portsmouth, Va., and Samuel G. Liukous, of Raleigh; Fireman O. L. Wells, of Raleigh, and Brakeman George Napier of Richmond, white, were killed, and John Smith, negro fireman, and T. O. Jones, brakeman, of Raleigh, were injured. The bodies of the trainmen are buried beneath the debris, and it is regarded as doubtful if they ever would be recovered, as it was believed they were cremated. The authorities are holding Jacobs responsible tor the wreck. It wis declared he failed to hold the northbound train and deliver an order annulling a previous order to meet the southbound train at Kittrell, eight miles north of Franklinton and mak ing the new meeting point, The southbound train received the new order at Kittrell, bui Jacobs, it is charged, failed tc hold the nortbound tram ai Franklinton, and the two met ir a hollow, at the bottom of twc imi ? | nins, on a snarp curve about three miles north of that point. Railroad men described the smash-up as one of the most dis astrous freight wrecks in the his tory of the road. Both train! were running rapidly dowt grade in an effort to gathei speed to climb the hills beyond, and when the crash came, the two engines, weighing more than 15<> tons each, were demol ished and buried under the wrprkndn nf t?ron?ti elf vri nf^iuj'oiA ucmviiy loaded cars. The whole mass was jumbled together within ? sp^ce of 300 feet The wreck age burst into flames immediate ly, and everything of a combus tible nature was consumed. The Why of the Whereas Ohio Sta?'? Journal. Gov. Cox of Ohio requested Clerk of the House John R, Cassidy to prepare a bill which he wished to call to the attention of the legislature. In time Cassidy, who is a former probate judge of Logan county, returned to Cox's office and showed him his draft of the measure. n:j ? wiu you ever sn uown and try to unravel the verbal yarn balls known as "revised" statutes: It's some job, as anybody but a Philadelphia lawyer will admit. Jimmie scratched his head. "John," he said languidly, "I can read everv word of this thing? but what in the world does it all mean, anvway? Why don't you write laws so anybody can understand 'em?" "Well, governor, I'll tell you," said the ex probate judge. "Y'see, if lavs were written so the lay mind could understand 'em, we lawyers would starve to death. That's why the alarums, excur sions, preludes, whereas's and why8o'9 are put in " : Will The War Last Four Years Looking at the situation as it now stands, with the third aniii versary of the struggle jn sight, it seems to me that every sign 1 points toward a four-year war. We shall continue to be pleased by the optimistic reports that those who sympathize with Russian liberalism give us. But there is very sound reason for believing that these reports do ' not reveal the extent of the Rus sian collapse. Actually the Ai lied cause has been deprived of not less than 1,500,000 soldiers, who were organized and commanded by brilliant generals. Discipline in these armies has been bestro3*ed, temporarily at least. This collapse has given Ger many a chance to utilize in the West the troops that otherwise would have been contained and ' fully occupied in the East. It has given her another year's supply of men for the West. Her condition at the end of this time, if she does not win victory or peace, will be far worse than : before, but this is a future consideration. Today she is better oft, because she has new divisions to draw upon. ! A complete collapse of Rus sia and the signing of a separate ' peace between Germany and Russia will only make thevsituation worse. Then I firmly be; ' lieve the outcome of the war j will depend upon the number of hundreds of thousands of men the United States can put on the j western front by this time next year. Beyond next year the war cannot go. During next year Germany will collapse eco j nomically, militarily, all ways, if ^ the struggle is prolonged. This is the common assertion of the t Germans, themselves, who do not dream that the Allies can continue the war into next year t But everything that has hap pened in the past month has but emphasized the importance of the American role in the war. Unless Russia returns to the atk tacK, we must be ready next | year to make up the deficiencies r in French man-power and with the British continue the pound'4 ing and grinding up of German man-power until Germany con sent to make peace upon terms that demonstrate the downfall \ of her military caste and leave , the world in some sense protect | ed against a renewal of the Ger man uiiuck.?rranK M. Almonds in Review of Reviews. Thomas Buie Makes Fine Record Thomas S. Buie of Patrick was awarded the Norris medal at the close of Clemson College I on June 19th. which is the highest honor Ciemson can bestow | on a student, the medal being awarded to the student making the best all around record for ( tour years. This is the first time this medal has ever been awarded to a Chesterfield , County bov. Tom went to Clemson in l9l3ona scholarship from Chesterfield County and has distinguished himself since i the early days of his College career, winning quiet a number of honors, anion z which is a fellowship in the State Agricultural College of Pennsyl vania. He is now in the offi- ] I cers Reserve training camp at! Fort Oglethrope Ga.?Adver- \ tiser. ? "I can't find any old clothes for the scarecrow," said the farmer. "Use some of the fancy things the hoy brought home from col lege," said his wife. "I'm trying to scare crows? not make 'em laugh 'emselves to death," said the farmer. * . Greece Joins Foes of Central Powers Athens, June 29.?The Greek government has broken diplomatic relations with Germany, Austra Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey. Though war has not yet been declared, the Greek Govern ment considers that a state of war exists since its advent to power yesterday. Greece's new course with regard to war began to be shaped on June 12 with the abdication of King Constantine and the accession of Alexander, his second son, as king. The abdi cation was in effect a dethronement of Constantine, whose pro-German at titude had given the entente endless trouble and threatened not only the success of the Saloniki expedition but its safety through danger of rear attacks from a hostile Greek military t T\ * " iorce. uccisive action by the entent was lone in comine but was. drastic when finally taken. Eliptherios Venizelos, Greece's leading statesman and fast friend of the entente, soon appeared as the man to take leadersip in guidine greece back to her traditional place bv the side of England, France and Servia. the last her close ally whom she had abandoned under Constantine's coercion in Servia's hour of greatest need. Signs that Greece would not much longer maintain even a nominally or benevolently neu tral attitude towards the entente in the war were in evidence several days ago and recent dis patches indicated that a break between Greece and the central powers was imminent. A Whopper The story below is from the Marshville Home, and Mr. Green says another man told him: Two negroes were straining themselves to get off the biggest varn. "I caught a bushel of mountain trout as fast as I could bait mv hook and they got to biting the hook without any bait on it,' said one negro. The other negro replied: "Why, Joe, little fish like mountain trout don't 'peal to me. I always goes in fur bigger fish. They tol' me about a big fish that had been a using down in the Chesepeake bay and he'd bite off lines big as a plow line and git away. I told 'em I believed I could fetch him. I went out and had a hook made at the blacksmith shop oht of a piece o' steel 'bout as big as yo' wrist. I tied it on the end of a two inch rope? the kind you move houses with. 1 made sure my boat was anchored down good and fast and then 1 throwed the hook in. No sooner than it hit the water dat big fish grabbed it. He snatched that anchor up and made across dat bay so fast that anchor got right red hot in the water. When he got to the tother side he snapped dat two inch rope off quick as you could bat your eyes and jumped over a island into another body of water and got away." That other negro who had been listening with wonder exclaimed: "Why, liill, dat wasn't a fish,? dat mus' o' been a whale." "No, it wasn't a whale either." re sponded Bill, "1 had me hook baited with a whale." Visitor?My good man. you keep your pigs much too near the house. Cottager?That's just what the doctor said mum. But I don't see how it's agoin' to hurt V:n! Punch. Neutrals Supply Germany With J Food Washington, July 1.?Evi-| dence that Germany is obtain ing vast quantities of food from the European neutral countries ha6 been presented to the United States by Great Britain for the American government's guidance in determining an export policy. Much of this, the Brit ish statistics pueport to show, is replaced by the neutrals with imports from America. From Scandinavia and Holland, the information sets forth, enough fat is going into Germany to supply 7,700,000 soldiers, virtually the entire army of ef fectives in the empire. German imports from these countries, it is declared, reduced to calories will equal the total ration of 2,500,000 troops, the size of the German army in the west, German purchases of food stuffs abroad are made through the government department of the interior, which has organized a special division to buy f rrtrr, 4U? * 1- T- -? boy who has gone in their place? Can they look their fellow man in the face? When they see the armless sleeve, the legless trouser, the distorted face or the helpless blind how will they feel who have not done their duty? If you are not a parasite, then subscribe! No matter what amount, but do something and do it now. Save a man's life. Did you know that the mortality has been reduced from 90 per cent to 10 per cent by the Red Cross Society? Is i? not worth while? Is there any excuse or argument against your giving? If you are awake vou wilt contribute; if you're dead vou should be buried, for only 1 live one* are needed now, uvsiu uic ucuuuis. in ine eariy days of the war, the German government stimulated importation of tood by excluding imports from operation of maxi mum price laws, but this drew such a vigerous protest from German producers and practice was stopped. Now the German authorities are said to be using coercion, exchanging for foodstuffs bought in the neutral countries coal and other commodities necessary fcr maintenance of the neutral industries. To some extent, these coercions have been recognized by the British in the operation of their blockade, but with the entry of America into the war, the British believe an arrangement can be made for supplying the neutrals with most of their necessary requirements from the allied countries. Dont be a Slacker "America" In Gastonia Gazelle. Slackers, German sympathizers, parasites, Kaiser's fledglings, barnacles upon the Ship of State, take notice. Only tor those who need it. Those who failed to contribut to the Red Cross fund without sufficient reason are unquestionably any and all of the above mentioned. They seek every excuse to shirk their duty by not subscribing, and there are a few wno brazenly say, "no" Ulitll/Mlt ? iiiuuui undine aiij excuse, Such men forget that the best of our manhood is going to the front while they are allowed to stav at home with their loved ones, to further their business, knowing nothing of the sacrifices and privations that are going to be undergone. Can men prosper, can businesses succeed that have connected with it one who is so narrow and self centered who does not subscrib? Will they not cringe when thev look in the casualitv list and see the name of some What Northcliffe Thinks Lord Northcliffe, inconocla^t of the British bureaucracy whici threatened the efficiency of tl e British war machine, has a reputation in England as a blunt an I fearless speaker, forthright aDd vigorous, but always sure of h.s ground. What Lord Northcliffe! tells the American people, then, should be accented with due con sideration. When he tells them that the war is going to be a hard one, that they may have to exert every bit of their strength to gain the victory the world's freedom demands, his words should have weight. Lord Northbliffe but corroborates the advice of our own statesman, soldiers and economists, who have warned the American people above all things not to expect too easv a victory. He is no alarmist, clamoring to the world of the inefficiency of all things Ameri can and governmental such as those weeping prophets who have afflicted us through the medium of the magazines which think and almost style themselves as the saviors of America. He has faith in the strength and determination of America to work out the world's safety even even from the tangled woof of thin red threads. The genius of British journalism sees and marks the things that make America formidable to the foes of democracy. He also sees the difficulties which beset this country in coming to , a war footing. But evidently he has confidence that the brain and heart and sinew of America, once America wakes to the nature of the task before it, will make good in this war as they have made good in industry and philanthropy and science. And the opinion of this British journalist is worth something. But America can not sleep and justify his good opinion. America must be awake every minute to the gigantic proportions of the crusade of freedom on which it has embarked.?The State. Candidate Who was Defeated Has Long List of Losses "A Reader," whose postoffice address is Ladonia, Texas, sent the following to The Journal: "A defeated candidate gives the following inventory of his campain losses. "Lost four months and twentythree days canvassing, "Lost 1,349 hours of sleep thinking about the election. "Lost 43 acres of corn and a whole sweet potato crop, "Lost two front teeth and a whole lot of hair in a personal encounter with an opponent. "Donated one beef, four shoats and five sheep to a country barbecue. "Gave away two pairs ot suspenders, four calico dresses, $5 and thirteen baby rattlers. "Kissed 126 babies. "Kindled fourteen kitchen fires. "Put up eight stoves, cut fourteen cords of wood and carried twenty four buckets of water. "Picked nine bales of cotton, gathered seven wagon loads of corn and pulled 176 bundles of fodder. "Walked 4,<>76 miles, shook hands 9,5% times, told 10,101 lies and talked enough to make in print 1,00b volumes the size of a Patent Office report. "Attended sixteen revival meetings, was baptized four different times by immersion and twice some other way, contributed $50 to foreign missions, made love to nine grass widows. "Got dog bit thirty-nine times and tbeiv-gn! defeated