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MAIL ORDERS f\ FILLED CAREFULLY I AND PROMPTLY ^ A Great Pre Ea Every^Suit and every Dress in dressed" at a great saving. Silk St Silk, etc., in sizes 16 to 41. Prices some with Georgette sleeves. All s New Milliner m Never before has our millinery c filled with such a good assortm Flowers, Ribbons, Foliage, etc. V ceived a lot of new shapes, some * dium and,some large. Be sure \ experienced milliner for 3 our new The prices will suit you. New Corsets Get your next corset from Caldv wanger's. The new [models for S and they are beautiful. We want are selling more this Spring than e1 ling them because every one we sc qualified. Every pair guaranteed nc or tear. Our pricesJSl.OO [to 35.0( Bon Ton. Naur Paetov QJ11 4 1VTT JUUCkVl U11I No better time than N-0-W|,to b Choosing is easiest because 'range qualities are at their best. Middy Blouses 4 One lot of Middy Blouses with wl: or navy collar. Made of good quali 8 to 42. Special each 45c. Ladies' Porch Dress< The best Dress we have ever had. Ginghams, Percales, etc., inbeautifi I .... Visit our store and see the new we take pleasure in showing you, I Cald1 The 1216-20 Maia Street MISCHIEF MAKERS WROUGHT ?anda of such ] ALL THE HAVOC IS MEXICO United States and public and , To the Editor of The Record: effectively crys " : - In connection. "with the warning of scarcely a com . .the president of the United States not take up the :* against the acceptance of untruthful Sentiment ag; "reports circulated by mischief-mak-1 aroused to suet ers along, the border, it is opportune j Pers refused tc to call attention to the propaganda reputable men i which, aroused public sentiment in the to have first-hai United States against Porfirio Diaz, attempted to an who, up to that time, enjoyed a repu- the Questions, "j tation throughout the world as one o' "After Huerta. 1 the greatest men of his century. Intlamli Diaz realized that education was a la 1909, when prerequisite to citizenship and when Peaceful as a d the Madero revolt was inaugurated tides in a well ] there were day schools and night aziiie began an schools 'and scarcely an Indian village made ready pu without a teacher. There was a great United States fc agarian problem but Diaz was work- tion. To anyone ing with a view to its solution. The j history 0f our condition of the peons touched any j eas.v to start at rr.;+v. wU,. v.,4. I erence iq had tn 'utai i Willi , UUt "? >V Sllll 11 pi V/U Jem, not unlike the white man's bur- j current liter den in the South f '^at >'ear. It wi The government of Porfirio Diaz | rao'iS ,influeilce . was not perfect but it was the only j moilltlinS publi government which in a measure was j ^iaz' unt;il finall; fitted to the people and their condition, uere Permilted i until a wiser man could give them 11 is enemieb aiKi something better. Be his faults what j 0X01 a ?mernm they ma>\ Mexico and our country | :or -s0 ma ^vere ten thousand times better off un- ^ut * ^iaAe ?' <ler Diaz than they are today. J?tor\. When the I between the Uni The opinion of the general public j y . co were hanging So ncnflllr fnmifi/1 * if vao A c J - o vi^uuu * ivt JLX uu.i n iiai u i cauc i , . , J shortly prior to and seldom is inquiry made as to the j T. , J ; Lmd was sent to possibilities of wilful or unintentional I ,, . the task 01 com misrepresentatons. The gullibility o.! the auth?>r q? ^ the American people has made the uec-: arQused America essary adjuncts to enterprises which ^ was a, require for their success a backing of 0 ,ft,_ ruarv lyld, a < (public sentiment. I claim to have no . , ~ , * ing of Felix Diaz inside information, but newspaper and tfae sequel of whi magazine files and a residence of sev- ' . ment in Mexico O cral years in Mexico justify the con- n4., , . , ? , / , . papers attempted -elusion tnat "somebody's bread has ,, , , . , Madero s standar '"been eaten'* from the "songs that have .. , ? ?ention and on tieen sung." . . ' ... ? American citizen, \Ar if no AT?r>i A x^jaiio j-.ci oiuii tu w-auug j American people ; <both sides, it is not surprising that | ^eean the public; the department of state, as well as 1 articies in El Pais the public were not well informed, j newspaper ill Me "With. Bryan's former diplomacy and j caption "La verd Villa's press agents, it is only good tervenc'ion Ameri fortune that Pancho Villa is not now a^ut the Ameri president ot; Mexico instead of being j ^ Strong ?. hunted bandit. j introdu< Shortly before and during the first series, the write revolution against the constituted, gov- as ' an 'American eminent of Mexico, there was a propa- iance with the aldwell & Haltiwanger ster Sale of Suits, Dre ; our big stock has been reduced. A chance 1 rite. Shprihprd Checks. Pfmlinx- Cjnhn-rrHnoc $13.95 to $34.50. The dresses will appeal jc hades, 16 to 44. f plaids and solids, all ha lepartment been 36 to 50. Special value. ent of Shapes, A C 1 c 1 /e^have just re- ^ale Or ' small, some me- Just received, big ship u_ WP ha VP rrmrip thrpo nri ,'ou consuib uur " ^ Easter bonnet. whlch y?u wi!I like the lot $1.25, 3rd lot $1.98. New Spri rell and Haiti- New Spring Waists of pring'are here Most everybody knows w to fit you. We town for 98c. See the per before. Sel- this week s selling. Alls *ld last season received. >t to rust, break i r- _ i ). R. W. and lDC 1SJQ r A fine, practical, long ~thru the tub a smiling. ! (S checks. 32 inches wide, my your Silks. ladies dresses. of colors and pancy T()p g g Just received a good e socks for children, all lite, red, copen 10 to 25c. ? ^ * ? ? tty drill, bizes Curtain C 5S 98c Make your old room lo< , Materials are We have placed 10 pieces il Spring cheks sale for this week selling merchandise. Looking doesn t\necessari1y rr rfake ovr store your meeting place, your shopj well & Haltiwangei Wooltex Store - - The Ladies' Store P auge proportions in the which would gain or would lose if in against Porfirio Diaz tervention is realized; and then pro editorial sentiment so j ceeded to inflame the Mexicans to th tallized that there was t point of intervening against the Ameri ity newspaper that did j can government?even going so far a: s hue and the cry. to accuse his governmet of havinj linst Porfirio Diaz -was willfully blown tip the Maine as : i a pitch that newspa- pretext for war with Spain. I hav< > publish articles by before me copies o.* El Pais and wil ?rho were in a position translate a few paragraphs as samples id knowledge and who of the whole: swer in their columns "is the United States capable or a \.fter Diaz, What?" and crime so abominable as to intervene Vhat?" in the domestic affairs of Mexico j lg the People. And if the answer is 'Yes/ then why all in Mexico was as has she not perpetuated this crime? ream^ a series of ar- "in this article I will proceed to aninown American mag- swer the first of these questions, reattack on Diaz and serving the second until later. In my blic setiment in the introduction to these articles. I de >r tbe t.Madero revolu- scribed the government of the United desiring to study the states as 'a mysterious entityf more Iexican troubles, it is or }ess tangible and impersonal, which the beginning, i; ref- persists and in the same,, notwithstandthe review and digests in?r that presidents go and come and ature written during the political parties in like manner II be seen what enor- succeed each other in power.' In a tnose articles had in proximate article I will attempt to c sentiment aaginst define the exact nature of this mysy* arms and munitions terious entity. o cross the border to revolution triumphed "R?8ardinS question that oecuent which had been pies ,IS' we wiu s"ffice t0 sa* that a foreign policv commenced some denv vears. , # , .. cades ago, a > oreign policv that has lily told halt of the J . i gradual and firmlv enlarged, > mnlnmntip ntinnc - ? ted Qtates and Mexi-1 which has be(?n accentuated more and 5 b; a thread ' and! p,aCei1 in aCtion with ?reater trequen- I the' time when John i C}' a?reeable the >'ear* that have Mexico charged with i been p3Ssing '' not a policy ,hat can * ?* be abandoned instantly posing the situation,] e articles which had j "It is sufficient to direct a rapid n sentiment against! glance to show the reader what di in Mexico. On Feb-1 rection the foreign policy of the Uniiay before the upris- I ted States is leading towards this naI and Bernado Reyes, tion and how boundless are the posch was the bombard- sibilities of intervention with nations ity, the Madero news- which, are weaker. Many Mexicans to rally Mexicans to i who read these lines know, without d by crying int^r- j doubt better than I, the authentic histhat day the same: tory of the war of Mexico with the who had aroused the ' United States in 1864, since what was 3 tT"1 of P/~iTfrtmr\ "Hio ry 1 fon rr"Ii f -m c\ J *-? r\MTf on"m nfinno onnc -? ViilX IV JL^C*rJLt* laU^llL UiC All V/Ul O U iil ]J l/l \J U O OUUVJVI O ation of a series of was simplv a falsehood and it was i >, an influential daily; necessary for me to purge myself of it xico City, under the j completely before I could receive the lad acreca de la in- truth. Nevertheless, some Americans icana." (The truth inspired and animated by justice have can Intervention). had sufficient civil courage to tell, Accusation, notwithstanding, parts of the truth, : rtory article of the' altogether their hooks remain In obr described himself scurity and can only be found in the < without any *Ueg- -most hidden corners of the libraries i financial interests From such historians I have learned < - o a 'siiperio is a good so pjjoyp tion and exl Well mav NO. 10. . . against such ???i??For publisl the America: sses and Hats vxpeU* ^noxious pers r i*i - ... 11 . now l^aaies to get "wen erai >ears " Combinations of woo) and on ti ' writings wei ) you. Some all Taffeta, of the Amer of newspapei period will b mdsomely trimmed. Sizes ciinton, s. each 98C" ELKs"l iVhite Skirts 11 State Meeting ment of white wash skirts. ! yiil} 1 Mu ces on them. Can t say best. First iot 98c, 2nd T!ie StateAll waist lines. . lent and Prot $ j hold its btate ng WaiStS ! burg May 17. line quality Voiles at 98c. i jr|mrtan|""'" ~ , J i Doimnick. pr( /e sell ^the best waist in 11 ganization, is occnrfmonf wra Vtoiro -fvw i SDnrtanburar t UUUV1 flXi ill/ T? v 11U V i KJL I r ~ ^ izes. New lot of silk just l* !on:erenre 1 J J: lodge over ma * ; annual meetii ?????? "?????"?? '! enoe let al con dy Cloth H 1,11 pn * j gnt.ie* in? put wearing fabric that sails i! exre.-t tlie me Solid colors, stripes and Ijrr,;ate*t ? ' 1 , j ir South Can Fine for boys suits and ; t..s been erov in the past 12 i r t* i Tl" uocks ror 1 ots floi issortment of colored top f,oK f B Xl sizes, special the pair visitor, Ten Perma , 1 C 1 i Greenwood Joi loods oale coi. c b. , r . ... . . attorney of A ok new [at a little cost. Fla is spen(ii ; of good curtain cloth on city as the gi at yard 10c. recent visit by back an enthu* * i(^a g00(j roa(js lean you have to buy and today by Col oing place, interest in the Thf> Florida j county, about j vided into five i issues (for pen dewberry, South Carolina boen voted ave] $500,000. Only - r districts sold $1 an early date - j that the war of 1S40 was pure and sim- iar^est in the - ply a war of conquest. Profiting by vote an issue o; e the internal dissensions which affict- ~ ? . . I , ?? Polk county . -led the Mexican people, the united , ... ty, will soon sp< s States, almost unexpectedly, assembled ^ good roads l \ her army, had a dispute about Texas, i tout of this vast quantity of beautiful _.pp m,,ny 3 territory that now comprise the * ' " ' " I States of New Mexico, Arizona and ; California it did not have the least , , ? iJAnartii llonflo shadow 0!.' a contention; their inhab- -?*??* L itants were almost totally Mexicans; Desire to C , peace reigned and there were no Mex> ican troops to guard the frontiers and the towns, for the simple reason (bat "Washington, such an act would have been a flag- man(^' s^m^ar rant violation of all the rules of in- L^e ?^ier ra511 ternational ethics and of civilization. COUIltr-' ^ore 1 since the invasion of their frontiers :Coapman, and towns had not in the least cross- era* mana?'-'r ed the minds of the inhabitants. In ^ a point '-amn this manner came the adventurous' en?*neers' firenl (Americans, carrying the flag of the; nien and "cin* ; stars and stripes, violated this beau- ^er senice emP' ! tiful land, took possesion or it and con- men as^ 1 : fiscated it in their ifavor. They pro- ei?ht-hoin ^a" h | claimed very loud that the land was j ^or 0%ert '11 i theirs, and that it belonged to them !utes ! by right; they appropriated a land I 1*ixod b; i abundant in riches, that with Texas; *n a(^noW^e(^ i composed more than half of the na-jman('s* *^r" ^oap tional teritorv which had cost the; *^'e PieseR*- s r , t i ? , working conditio ! Mexicans to defend it from the claws; ; of the Spanish lion, so much blood and 'a' ttxe(' . .tration and this so manv tears. ! ! thev are adequat "These facts so simple on sight are; ^ cmploves n unknown to Americans educated in j desjl.e t0 cl)an!!e the common schools of country. The i , . of pav or the wc heroic and desperate fight of the Mex- j He *served noti icans to defend their country from the . Jn counection wi invaders, notwithstanding the inmim-jthe,r proposaIs t erable difficulties they had, is un-j^ djiposition fh known. Of the episode which year by scheduleg year is commemorated in Mexico of ^ established the martydom of the heroic boys of ? Chapultepec never is spoken of. By ? "^ hat is taught in our schools we sup-I 10 111(3 Pose that the march of the American ^Irs- Cotman o soldiers from the margin of the Rio rage association, Grande to Chapultepec was a triumph.- organizer f< al procession; it was enough that an ^^tion and reqi American showed up for the armies of desiring ii Mexico to surender or fly terrorized j conrt house on t be:ore him. For these Americans I ^ The public i whose territorial ajvarice has never! been satisfied and from that time for- RUB-lv ward they have not left covered in ^re their breasts desires of expansion ra]d ia CHeadach they have -utilized books full of false- Sprains Bruises hoods to convince their most ignorant $ores Tetter fellow-citizens that the Mexicans are ' * cowards and renegades, incapafole and ... ? ? v. | unworthy to possess a nationality, pre- ? iestined solely to labor in benefaction SUBSCRIBE TO 1 r- race. T-.is. as you seo, \ PROBLEMS OF THE RI RAL phism for future exploita- ; CHTRCM Wf'ST KNLl-vl IV>ropriation . . . I TEREST OK YOl'Mi I'KHPLE the president now warn! i plotters. Neither poverty nor prosperity :iing the.se articles against should seriously interfere with the a government, ihe author! influence and power o" ihe country I from Mexico as an ob-1 church. Hut it =e*ms thar both prosion by Huerta. Yet, sev- j perity and lack of it do in some inefore when he made his i i ? , i.'mii v.\ ^ P 1 C ? U i i I 1 U1 ai L II Ui V/liCO 11 \Jllk le Diaz government, his j becoming greater factors for the up e the basis of editorials 1 lift of humanity. Great prosperity ican press, and the files j should not cause many farmers to rs and magazines of that move to town and leave the rural ear out this statement. j church, the public school, roads and H. L. Scai.e. ; neighborhood leadership to less able C. March 29, 1916. \ and less Interested men but it does in * i * ' ; many instances. Snort crops and poor TO SPAHTANBUKG markets should not cause the church | :? to be neglected and us Influence cirX B. P. 0. E. to Be Held ; cumscribed hnr snni. cnomc tr\ ho tv->. IS and 10? Week of j fac t. sieal Festival. j The rural church .s dependent very | largely upon fai?.niul, seif-sacriflc; ing members that love tneir neigh, March 29.?The Benevo-; b0r}10od and are willing to do their eetive Order of Elks will | part jn helping spread the gospel ( coii'vention in Spartan- j amon?r men. Wealth is not a standard IS, 19, at the time of the . which to test the country church, music festival. Fred H. ; as lille cos^ except the small salary ?sident of the State or- ! 0f ^he pastor is required. The mo t expected to arrive in J useful church is the churcTi that meets omorrow or next day for | jts opportunity at home among the A-ith officers of the local I young people of the neighborhood tters connected with the j ra^er than to din-ide Its time and opig. Alter this confer- j portunity ''in the foreign field." Few % W i t t ttrl 1 1 H/-J onr\Aln* i 1,111 j country churches have advanced far spa rations for the State j beyond the ?begin-at-Jenisalem" eomunder vwi\. Ix>v al Elks | man(j f0r evangelizing the world. In eting hero :n Va% to be j fact, the greatest need of the country 1 thc histor-v of lhe order church and Christian people in rural )lina. The organization I communities is to enlist young people, n'ng greatlj in numbers j train them ^ov servi0e as rurai leadmonths. 1 ers an(^ j^ip them become more efftRNED VBOl'T cient producers as well as Christian RID V l'T'RI IC RO \DS' This can best he accomplished by resident pastors who undertantf ead^ay a Greenwood agriculhlre aad rJra> life' supported Is of Both) Issoes for an(1 assisted br churcl1 members.nent Highways. Farm allJ Ranch urna, PRESIDENT WILSON IN VITED ? ' TO VISIT PALMETTO STATE , rreadway, a prominent rcadia, DeSoto county, The ReconJ ng several days ;n the, wl]iam Vln-nhi nroci/lerit ?( tho I .? ?KM* r. vT A. ^WUrW iest o . ai e>. ; Press association of South Carolina, Col. Bailev brought him j state(j night that he had called a jiastic booster for ^r>-'or": meeting- of the executive committee to and a statement made ^ city Friday of next Treads ay add^ to the weej. ^ conSjder the plans and the good roads question. i A . Tr 6 * program for the next meetng. He revisitor says that his . qUests all of the members to come to l>0 square miles, is di-i^e meeting with suggestions to offer i districts where bond I as papers to be read, etc. nanent highways have fiy a very clQse vote ai the ^ lading from $-25,000 to, meeting, it was decided to hold tlie recently one of the>6 conveation at tChick Springs, * u.o0.000 in bondb and at. wkere ^ey were ^ hospitably enterArcadia district, the|tAiT1A/, fftr fvex fnrmPr Mnvwiinnc hv county, will per aps j Thos. Arnold. But Col. Arnold I $500,000. . j,jjag t t1ie gpring5 l0 engage in the adjoining DeSoto coun- dry goods business, and there is as end two million dollars no certainty that the swings will be opened \is season, or that the a& sociation will 'be invited by the new DS ARE MADE management. OUTHERX RAILWAY ?j beard early in January," said Mr. ^ Banks, "that the hotel would be closed, er Coapman Has No or wouj^ change bands, but I had the iange Rates of Pay information in confidence and could Rules. not t^e executive committee to?: getlier at the usual time during the March 30. 'Wage de- sessi0n 0f the legislature. ' ' i to those submitted to <<r ... "I have been delaying the meeting of oads througflout the , ... ,.. . .. . the committee, waiting for something presented todav to E. ?... . , 0 . , , definite from Chick Springs, but I can ce president and gen- . , . .? j get nothing satisfactory for some time 4 the Southern railway, I , '' ,, i vet, and as another hotel in the city uttee representing the; . . ... . of Greenville is inviting the convention en, conductors, tram _ II think we had better decide now what switchmen. Passen-j , I to do, and I take the liberty under the :oyes are not involved. . , , ., circumstances ot inviting bids for our .iat they be paid on an . . next convention.' * time a"( ?"G During December. {Mr. Banks stated, e, computet \ mm ha(j requeS{e(j Congrlssman Lever . .. to ask President Wilson to come to 4 v Arbitration. * * South Carolina as the guest oi: th* ing receipt of the de- . . . . , . press association, and Mr. Wilson has irnan said: ,, . . . . Tjr j the invitation under advisement. He ia.iiua.i us ut ra.ic? cinu i , , , , i has never declined, and he has never ms have been very; , v . . accepted but it is likely that he wul mediation and arbi-; , * , , . , 1 make a tnp to the Carolinas about companv ;:eels that ^ , , _ . . , x, ^ . , * . May 20th. and it is hoped that he caa j e and even liberal to . v. , , x .. .. _ ' ' he induced to address the Press as- \ ?nis company has no . . . .. A .. ... _ .. * . . sociation at that time, either for the i either existing rates; , i regular meeting of the association or >rking rules.' l. , j for a special occasion. ice on the men that M | ' ith consideration of 3f?ETI>"G OF DEMOCRATIC here should be open EXECUTIVE C03DTITTEK ose provisions in ex or those in conflict ^ meeting o: the Ccunty Democratic principles. Executive Committee is hereby called ^ ~ for Saturday, .April 15, 1916, at li J jrlons Public: o'clock a. m., at the court house. A'*2 ! Arkansas and Miss members are urged to be present. will speak on the in- JOg. l. KEITT, Chairman. 1 xi i c*..a _ .i >r *ue A>iiuuuai oui- w< & McSWAIA, i>ecreiary. i lest of local suffra- 3-28-2t ' aformation, in the he evening of April Joint ^onBC|j Meeting. s invited. Sprjng meeting of the join: council of the Beth Eden pastorate | | ^ ^ will he held at the parsonage on Sat, urday, April 1, at 11 a. m. The couniumatism,-acu C}1 togetjjer any of the mem.bere ies, ramps, -'OyC ^ may desire to come are requesti, Cuts, Burns, Ola , J. ^ ^ v * p- ^ tr? ed to bring their wives and baskets j\in*- , /orm,v ilc- . A , , . - * ,A. that we may enjoy a social nour witfc our new. past^r. theL. P..Mwid and his good wife. rHE HERALD AND Member of Council.