The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, March 27, 1917, Page TWO, Image 2

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<XOTIXl:E EFFORTS IX PKEPA REDNESS UtiritUH Departments of Overnment Keep Up Activity in faking Ready for Whatever Mar Befall. Washington, March 22.?AVord that! a i>uropcan neutral might offer medi-; ation to prevent open war between ( the United States and Germany has; come to the administration withom1 causing.surprise or in any way aifect-' ing the government's plans for meet-j ing the situation forced by submarine; TUtlilessness. Such a proposal is re-' garded here as nothing more than an- j other scheme fostered bv Germany' -cL-irii t-hp hrtr.A nf oonfusinar the issued " tu V? V - ? - w and possibly dividing sentiment In this country while the destruction ot American lives and ships on the high seas continues. At the state department today of ficials would neither deny nor confirm that the government already had been approached on this subject al though it was admitted informally that some such move was not unex pected. It was emphatically stated no suggestion of mediation or dis cussion would be considered unless It ? "was accompanied by abandonment ofj illegal assaults on American ship- j ping, a course to which there is no; reason for believing the imperial government is giving thought. Has Been Patient The feeling in all quarters here Is that the United States has with in- f finite patience and forbearance dona everything possible with honor to avert the virtual state of war now ex isting through German aggression. So long as this agression continues, of mv fharo ic T?ofhiner to be done AIClalQ OttJ y VULV? V 0 !but adopt measures of defense and no basis exists for destruction. Buring the 1<> days that must elapse before congress assembles in response to his call, President Wilson will gire close personal attention to the prepa rations going forward through the -war and navy departments. He saw. no callers today, but was in touch! "with both of the departments One of'the duties he performed was the signing or a rormai prwiaminwu sus pending the^eight hour law as appli ed to plants engaged on navy work,;' a step authorized by congress as a part of the general plans for speed-1: ing up construction. j Couucll to Meet. Secretary Baker, as chairman of --M A a? An c.-i i til6 COUI1C1I OI uanuuai called the council and its advisory committee of heads of great indus trial concerns to meet here Saturday to discuss how much more work is necessary to put the country in a state of adequate preparedness for de fense. The council already has ac complished wonderful results toward the mobilization of all ^he nation's resouces and tnese win oe surveyeu at Saturday's meet in?. Samivsl G ?>mp ers. as chairman of the council s com mittee on labor, issued invitation; "to 1 a large number of workmen, employ ers and scientists to accept member-! ship on the committer and attend its ! "first meeting April ?. ( FIFTEEN OF YIGILJSCIA'S CREW PERISH ; SiryivOrs From American Steamship; " -* * ? ^Wom in Onpn I SB11K uj ixviuuua ii viv ? ~r? Boats From Friday Until Sunday. ; Plymouth, Marcn 19?(Via Lonc^n).1 JYfteen members of the crew of the American steamer Vigilancia lost j their lives when the steamer was! torpedoed by a German submarine. J The survivors were in lifeboats from j T7?~iHoTr mnrn.ing' until Sunday after-. noon. . Among those droned were seveitei American citizens, including Third Officer Neils P. North and Third En gineer Carl Adeholde. This informa tion was given out by Capt. Frank A. Middleton, of New York, who with the survivors of the Vigilancia has reached the mainland and probably will make affidavits tomorrow before the American consul. j To the Associated Press Capt. Mid dleton said today that his vessel wa3 j sunk without warning. It was 10; ^ TTViAo v m/\rmnfip with thfe 1 U Ul^/UIV. X' l 4UUJ rnv*?...0, weather clear, when the ship was j struck by a torpedo on the starboard side near the No. 3 hatch. Two tor-( pedoes were fired at the steamer, but1 the first passed harmlessly astern, j Between seven and ten minutes after the steamer was struck she foundered Thrown Into the Water. j Two lifeboats were lowered from the Vigilancia and the crew of foily three men got into them. Owing to the swell of the ocean, however, j twenty-five men were thrown into the | >v a. u;r. The boats of the captain and the1 mate picked up ten of the men, huti the other fifteen were drowned. Capt. Middleton says he saw no sub marine during the attack, but that' one of the engineers thinks h.e sa"sv j a periscope. The captain saw two oily! streaks on the water about a thou sand yards from the steamer, which he took to be the tracks of the torpe does. The Vigilancia was flying the American fla.s and her name and a flag were painted on either side. [ Speaking of his experience in the ' boat, Capt. Middleton said: ; "After rescuing as many of the crew as possible in the boats we had biscuits and water. At night I fired distress signals. Several times by the glare of the lights I saw a sub- I marine following us fifty yards from the boats between 10 o'clock Friday night and 2.50 Saturday morning, but * -nrt otfomnt tr\ hpln IIS Jt uiauc uu >.~ "'We suffered great hardships in the boat. One man of the engine room staff is paralyzed as a result of ex posure." Healdton Under Convoy. Berlin, (wireless, via TucKertoon;. March 25.?Attention has been called here to the fact that the American tisaker Hralriron. -Mink on March 21 by a submarine, apparently was con voyed by British torpedo boats. The only life boat that is reported to have reached tho Dutch coast brouirbt in by a torpedo boat which was British. HISDEMiUliG MAKES ST AMI IN FRANCE Teutonic Forces Bringing Retreat to End on Arras La Fere Lin<i. Stirrer JKesistance Meets Advance oi French And British. Germany is believed to have added other American lives to her roster of death in her intensified subma rine campaign. The .American tank steamer Healdton has been sent to the bottom by a torpedo in the Nortn sea. One of the crevr is known to have died in a small boat that put away from the sinking vessel and 4 others are believed to have been killed by the explosion of the torpedo. Only seven of the crew of 38 are known to have been landed. Haste continues to be made throughout the United States in order j>rinor it intn a stale of nreDared ness to meet aggressions by Germany on American lives and commerce. Nothing new has been vouchsafed regarding the report that the expec tation in Berlin was that Germany would declare war against the United States in 4$ hours. It is stated that the German im perial chancellor left Berlin that day for general headquarters for a con ference with Emperor William and Field Marshall von Hindenburg on important questions concerning for eign politics. Germans Making Stand. i lie ijrtJi LLiana, lu British and French official communi cations, apparently are ending their retreat along the front in France and are preparing to give battle every where to the oncoming foes. Paris reports that between the Somme and the Oise the Germany made successive violent attackb against the French troops holding the east bank of the St. Quentin canal, but the French machine guns stopped tnem. all&cks <tisu v>ci C KA^LA. T V^\A by the Germans near La Fere ana between the Laon road and the river Aisne, but the French barrage broke them up. London reports tnat rrom the South of Arras to the West of St. Quentin along the entire British front, the Germans are stiffening their re sistance increasingly. The only advance by the entente *V>/\ Ui.an/>K fr/\Tlt i? TTTt itiULig LUC f 1 cuvu iivuk ? the French, who crossed the Ailette river at several points. The communication of the Berlin war office asserts that on both sides of the Somme and Oise rivers en gagements between Germans and en tente advance detachments have re suited favorably for the Germans. Fighting in East. There has been a removal of ac tivity oil the Russian iront on uie Viina region. Here the Germans made an advance over a front of two and a half miles east of Lidaand, cap tured 225 Russians and a number of guns: Petrogrard admits the advance, bur sa>s that later *he territory was re taken. In Galacia, near Brody, Ger man attacks have been repulsed. The Turks in Persia are still in re treat before the Russians, says Petro grad. Nothing new has come through concerning the operations of the Brit ish against the operations of the Brit ish against the Ottomans north ana northeast of Bagdad. The entente allies are still on the offensive against the forces of the central powers in Macedonia, but Ber lin "owo nttQ/>lrQ nnrth nf Monastl? have been repulsed. The usual artillery duels and minor infantry attacks continue in the Aub tio-Italian theatre. Announcement is made by the Ger man admiralty that the German raid er Moewe has returned to a home port after a second cruise in the Atlantic. It is stated that the vessel during this cruise "captured" shipping ag gregating 123,100 tons gross. Lon Prices. Washington Star. Tharifts \f Sscwab. anropos of the $5 advance in steel rails, said at a dinner at his house in Riverside drive: "We may growl about high prices, but we'd growl \vorse about low ones. High prices are a sign of good times, but low prices always have an omi nous significance. "It's like the story of the poulter er's son. ".Tnst. before the holidays a teacher said to a poulterer's little son: "Now, Tommy, if your father had a turkey weighing 27 pounds and sola it for C> cents a pound, what would It be worth ?*' "The little son of the poulterer wrinkled up his nose in a sneer. " 'It wouldn't be worth anything.'" he said." TAKE KKfcVtma Colds, LaGrippe, Rheum&tUm A pleasant but effective emulsion, which rebuilds the tissues, relieves the system, adds strength and stim ulates the nervous s, stem. It has absolutely no alcohol, and in every sense a tonic. $1.00 PER BOTTLE Ask Your Druggist Manufactured Solely by I THE FERROL COMPANY Columbia, S. C. | COTTON GINNED CROPS OF 1910-15 IN SOLTH CAROLINA ! ! Director Sam L. Rogers, of the bu I reau of census, department of com ! merce, announces the preliminary re-, i port of cotton ginned by counties in ! j South Carolina, for the crops of 1910 j and 1915. The report was made pub j ' lie for the Slate at 10 a. m. on Tues-j I day, March 20. : i fVn ant-it toe arp in rnnrnncr halftft I ( , ~ r> , counting round as half bales. Lin-! ters are not included.) I i * County 1916 191 - 1 a. t (1) Abbeville .. . .21 251 31 54S! Aiken ...36 067 37 7s:>| Anderson ... . . .55 732 60 348 i Bamberg .. 22 215 16 843 ! Barnwell 43 131 36 514 i Beaufort .. 6 307 4 345 j Berkeley 157 9 625! Calhoun . .22 999 21 29 u Charleston .. . ... 3 558 10 3231 Cherokee . . 9 223 15 026 i Chester ..20 420 20 220 Chesterfield ... . .19 723 30 033! Clarendon .. .19 340 27 286 I Colleton ... . ...12 902 13 680 Darlington .. . . .19 691 33 574 Dillon ..23 601 30 59*5 Dorchester ... ... 8 357 11 451 (1) Edgefield .. . .24 862 29 497 Fairfield 587 23 338 Florence ..18 777 30 594 Georgetown ... . . 1 417 2 506 Greenville ... . . .36 619 44 A A 685 (l)Greonwoou . . . sv 1JLS UU J I Hampton . .17 042 12 PI Horry .. 5 141 7 972' Jasper ... 5 056 3 212! Kershaw 12 500 24 89? | Lancaster . ... .. 15 7,27 22 379 j Laurens ... ... ..31 475 39 918! Lee ...... ...19 349 32 186! Lexington .. 24 438 24 4S2' (1) McCormick . . 11 1 1 717 COO 1 0 rJ Marion .... . . . . JL 1 OOO 1U ? -? Marlboro .. ..34 977 50 723 Newberry .. . ..30 897 36 888 Oconee ..18 474 18 190 Orangeburg . .. 59 15f> 62 804 Pickens ..16 749 17 885 Richland . .. ...17 669 19 939 ?6 278 25 898 Spartanbu.'g . . ..54 830 69 302 Sumter .. . 26 161 31 60U 99Q IS nfll Williamsburg . . .13 OIS 22 171 York 24 817 38 614 Total 968 436 1 174 213 (1). McCormick county organized from parts of Abbeville, Edgefield and Greenwood. SOUTHERN TIRES Have thicker treads than other tires sold at the price. Thick treads give \ longer wearing service at roaa: ! contact and protect you while entour | from many annoying punctures. A ' short nail- that will puncture the av erage tire will not reach the tube of a SOUTHERN on account of its ex tra thick tread. Sold by MOWERS GARAGE, Lower Main St. j 3-27-lt. IMPROVING PASSENGER SERVICE ON SOUTHERN j Washington, D. C.; March 24.?Pas j senger travel between the South an<! I Boston and other New England points ; will be made much more convenient , through the completion of the great I Hell Gate bridge, over the East river at .New York, which practically links the rails of the Pennsylvania and New1 Haven systems. 11 is e.\pt?ctt>u that within a short time, through ser vice between Boston and Washing ton will be established, thus elimin ating the cross-town transfer now necessary at New York. Southern Railway passenger offi ! cials believe that in time they will | ! be operating through Pullman cars j direct service between Boston ana j New 'Orleans, JVIc/biile, Montgomery, j Atlanta, Birmingham, Memphis, Chat | tanooga, Knoxville, and all important ' points in the great cotton mill dis- j trict of the Piedmont section, trains | being routed over the Southern Rail- j j way system to Washington, rennsyi- j j vania to New York, through the East) ; river tubes to Long Island, thence i over the Hell Gate bridge to connect j with the New Haven for Boston, j Such through service would tend i to increase trade and travel, both commercial and tourist, between the South and New England. The Heli Gate bridge is one of the engineering marvels of the age and with the con- J i l am vau n auj\o >? ?-?o vut>u>.< ?v. | ed at a cost of $27,000,000. NOTICE OF SPECIAL ELECTION IX ]YEWBERKY SCHOOL DLSTIMCT PfURSUANT to tlie authority con ferred upon the Trustees of Newber ry School District, an election has been ordered by them to be held, ana j will be held in saia scnooi i^isinc;., i ! at the Court House, in the Town of Newberry, on Tuesday the 17th day of April, 1917, on the question of levy ing annually an additional tax of two mils on the dollar on the taxable property of said School District, for the current expenses of maintaining and equipping the Schools in said School District. Those voting in favor of said ad ditional tax will cast a ballot with | words ".for Aaaiuoiiai ui x??u ; Mills" written or printed thereon, and those voting against said additional tax will cast a ballot with the words "Against Additional Tax of Two Mills'' written or printed thereon. The poll will open at 7:00 o'clock * ~" j f.lnco of A AA n'pl rt/Vlr P _ \f ; -n. . aii<i viuoc at -z w ^ ^ ^ , Joseph H. Hunter, C B. Martin and ' T. Roy Summer are appointed Mana gers to conduct said election, j W. 'A. McSWAIN, W. G. MAYES, L. G. ESKRIDGE, J. Y. JONES. GEO. S. MOWER. j Trustees of Newberry School District. Mar. 20-Mar. 27-Apr. 3-iApr. 10. RUB-MY-TISM?Antiseirtic, Relieves Rheumatism, Sprains. Neuralgia etc. NO GLOliY OH GLAMOIl JJl'T o\ly sacuifici To the Editor of The State: I am permitted to send you foi publication the enclosed very humai letter from the front. It is written b} one of the first rate Americans whi are serving with the Harjes?N'ortoi volunteer ambulance sections whici are under the American Red Cros9. If you like to state that anybodj wno warns to join ine voiuniee ambulance service in France shouK apply to me, we shall be glad. Elliott Xonoii. 2 Rector street. New York, March lb Not Far From Verdun, December 28, 11)16. Dear Mamma: Maybe you think that my head ha: been turned by the glory and glamo: of this war, etc. Let me tell you tha although there is a lot of that rot ii the newspapers, there is none It France. I have heard two bugles sinc< I have been here and both these wen warnings to the people that a bomu dropping aeroplane was overhead There are no pretty drills and m dress other than service uniforms Every one's single thought is to d< HIS UUl) 1UI X1 1 CLl?\^KZ Li\)l 11 tut. OilKt'A est kids to the oldest here. Here is an example, I am living temporarily in a house where I sleei in a bed?wonder of wonders. \V< are "en repos," literally "in repose.' Everybody expects that the army di vision to which we are attached wii scon be sent into the hardest kinc of fighting and we aie getting into tin best condition possible for it. So w( are quiet now although still withii hearing of the big guns. The owner of this house is a little stooped old French lady 75 years old She has four sons now fighting anc one dead. She also has five grana children fighting. She has sent hei three grand-daughters away so ai to give the soldiers the comfort oi the house. She not only gives liei house but does everything to make Ui comfortable, making beds, drying shoes, etc., doing laundry and building fires. I believe that all she gets U eat is what is given her. And wlier you ask her why all this--"C'est pom la patrie" ("It is for the native land") and dismisses it with a gesture. And that is typical and not at al unusual. ^v\"ie must put German) down where she will never again be a menace." That is not a bomastn slogan to hide a selfish policy, it ii in the heart and soul of tiie Frenci. people. There is no hatred of tin Germans as in Kngiana. ine prison ers here are treated exactly as tht French poilu. They have the same iood and do the same work. Lots o: them are mending roads here and arc very happy. If there were more hen there would be less French soldiers working on the roads too but as it is there are as many French soldiers a; Germans working on the roads anc all working together and in perfeci harmony. There is no hate here bui just the attitude that it is necessary to win the war for the good of Franc* and the world. It is always "and tht world." I have found that I love France. Ii is wonderful. There are real sacri fices here and real patriotism. Tht Pron/vhmfln lnvec his rountrv first, it proud of her next and will do any thing without thought of the cost foi her. And the French women too Perhaps they have given more. Any way they do not get the excitement They are wonderful. After I am through here I will bs a better man for seeing the French I will work harder than I ever did. 1 feel like a new man already and J roon finis! equij car \ [feel that I am doing something far,] fi ' far better than what 1 ever did at, I home. Love to all. Please be care- | j ful of yourself. r Your loving son, j I Soldiers' Sensations in Battle. 11 (By I^ewis R. Freeman, in the April ' 11 Popular Mechanics Magazine.) It was recently my privilege to see, f 1 in a single period of 36 liours, all trie r. i stages tnrougn wnicn a wounaea soi . i dier of the British army passes from ; ! the time he is brought back to tile j ; most advanced dressing station on the j Somme until he is put aboard the j | hospital steamer for England or sent j to a convalescent depot to recuper-1 ] ate his strength in France. During ! this short time I saw several thoua j and wounded men?with injuries ali j the way from two hours' old to as 3 : many waolcs?(aside, oi course, ircm r their magnificent courage and forti 11 tude) wa? the apparent absence 1 ; among them of poignant physical suf-i 1: fering. " i One of the most painfully wounded . ~; men I saw was also one of the most' ! slightly wounded. A Gorman slieit , ' | penetrating deep into the soft earth ' A Avnl V* o rlrirAn Vt lm - I UCIVi C CAJJlUUlii^ U.CL\JL UXiv^U i-L i in Uii j '! scathed hy the explosion itself, i _ { straight through a barbed-wire en- j j tanglement. Faring better In one j I respect than the man who jumped j .1 into a bramble bush in the nursery : , i rhyme, he did not "scratch out both j .; eyes." Protected, as they were, by ; ' | a rather beetling brow, these escaped ; J injury; and they were about the only i, part of his unfortunate anatomy that t; did escape. While there was not a . j cut on him over a haif-inch deep, neitiier vere tnere more man a iew | inches oj' cuticle at any piace on his 1 body that had been spared by the cruel barb3. Some of the furrows on his ba: k and legs were over two feet long. "He brctght up like a snared par tridge." said one of the doctors who attended him, "in a tangle of the wire, and they had to cut this away before he could be taken out. Al though the cu-ts were not deep, the germ-laden earth of the Somme was > S so thoroughly rubbed into them that, ;, only repeated injections of antitox- i ?' in saved him from blood poisoning. 1 ' i I have never known a human body to : 'neutralize* so much antitoxin. Dur- j : ing the first two weeks he was here j l he was constantly in greater pain j than any one of the many hundreds, i of far worse wounded men that pass- i r ed through our hands in that time. j j One cannot talk long with a Tom-j - my on the Somme without hearing, j some wierd tale or another of what j i he has seen happen to one of his j comrades as a result of shell explo- i sions in the trenches. For obvious { reasons these tales are almost inva-j riably told about some one else; in' fact, the one first-hand recital of such an incident that I heard was a far less' illuminative account of what happened than might well have been told by one of the chief actor's com rades. I talked with the man in a; hospital where he had been for a month recovering from crushed pel vie bones and internal injuries caus-1 ed by impact with the limb, 20 feet j from tne ground, oi a iree against j which he had been thrown by a <3er- ! man shell exploding in his trench. j "I was sitting on a sandbag/' he: said, "when the blighter that done j the business plumped risrht into thei bottom of the trench and buried it- j self deep into the mud before explod ing. Up flew me and the sandbag to gether, and the first thing I knew was a 'ell of a crack across the 'ips. and there I was 'anging in the bloom-! ing tree iiKe lasi weess wasu. uiuui, i 'have to 'ang on at all. It just plas . tered me rouud the lim' like a piece I of soft meat. I '-ouldn't climb down, t and, as they 'ad no ladders, there was ible Because of Its Price. A ca ? with surplus power, plent} i, ease of riding, beauty 01 line i, sturdy construction, high-c )ment, gives the maximum of m raiue at a sensible price. Now and later you can ieel that you've made a wise investment. (38) CAROLINA AUTO 00* I> . I'fcoae 172 Ask for Demonstration. nothing to do but for one o to shin up and let the rema down at the end of a line. it "urt like 'ell, getting me do I'm sure I didn't go oft' in a that stage of the show, cause remember cursing, with the breath I 'ad left, some bloke 'oo ' mooched along and was tryin' 10 sna^ me with a bit of a camr'y "e\1 smug gled up to the trenches. Camrys !n the trenches are strictly forbid, ana you can jolly well believe 1 told 'Ira W U"L 1 UIUUS-'1 "- 'i. tu. SOKE BAKGAINS. The Herald and News has never been much on clubbing offers and y^,' we are always willing to give our big family the benefit of any bargains that we may have. 'A/bout a year ago we ran an offer for the Woman's magazine and some other papers *ana there were some complaints that the ~ " ' ? n/vf fl 1 1 OH XX7 P suuscnpuous wcic uw ".ivu. made that arrangement through some publishers agency. 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