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ALL FORCES OF FREEDOM LET LOOSE FOR VICTOR! Washington, April 26.?In a state ment to the American press today Rene Viviani, France's vice premier and head of the war mission, said the cooperation of the 'United States would mean not only a military vic tory, which already was assured, but a victory of morality and right. Ex pressing deep gratitude for the en thusiastic reception given his mission here, M. Viviani said he realized ir was "not to us, but to our beloved ana heroic France." M. Viviani's statement to the Wash ington correspondents follows: "I promised to receive you after having reserved, as elementary courtesy required, my first communi cation solely for the president, I have just had the honor, which I shared with the other members of the mis sion, of being received by him. I am iLded happy to have been chosen to present the greetings of the French republic to tHe illustrious man wnose name is in every French mouth today, whose incomparable message is at this very hour being read and commanted upon in all our schools as the most perfect charter of human rights and which so fully expressed the virtues of your race?long suffering patience before appealing to force; and force to avenge that long suffering patience when there can be no other means. Proud of Their Countrj. "Qirifp vnn arp hwre to listen to me 1 ask you to repeat a thousandfold the expression of our deep gratitude for the enthusiastic reception the American people has granted us in Washington. It is not to us, but to our beloved and heroic France that reception was accorded. We were proud to be her children in those un forgettable moments when we read in the radiance of the faces we saw the noble sincerity oi your neans. auu I desire to thank also the press of the United States, represented by you. I fUily realize the ardent ana disinter ested help you have given by your tireless propaganda and in the cause of right; I know your action has been incalculable. Gentlemen, I thank you. "We have come to this land i to salute tne American peoyie auu xl? government, to call to fresh vigor our lifelong friendship, sweet and cor dial in the ordinary course of our lives, which these tragic hours have raised to all the ardor of brotherly love?a brotherly love which in these last years of suffering has multiplied its most toucnmg expressiuus? juu have given help, not only in treasure, in every act of kindness and good will; for us your children have shed their blood and the names of your sacred dead are inscribed forever in our hearts. And it was with a full knowledge of the meaning of what you did that you acted. Your inex haustible generosity was not the char ity of the fortunate to the distressed; it was an affirmation of your con science, a reasoned approval of your judgment. For Rights of Man., ''Tour fellow countrymen knew that under tne savage cisscluh. ui a nduuu of prey which has made of war, to quote a famous saying, its national in dustry, we were upholding with our incomparable allies, faithful ana valiant to the death, with ail those who are fighting shoulder to shoulder with us on the firing line, the sons of lnaomrtaDie spirit wuicu cue iuivco of autocracy were attempting to crush throughout the world. We are ready, to carry that struggle on to the end. "And now, as President 'Wilson has said, the republic of the United States rises in its strength as a champion ot right and rallies to the side of France and her allies. Only our descendants, when time has removed them suffi ciently far from present events, wili to be able to measure the full signitl f-R&O CRAFT .*3^, -7^ hai ' cance, the grandeur of an historic act which has sent a thrill through tne whole world. From today on all tli? forces of freedom are let loose. Aua not only victory of which we were already assured, is certain; the true | meaning of victory is made mam- J fest; it can not be merely a fortunate! military cuuui usiuu i.u u.,* ' it will be the victory of morality ana ! right and will forever secure the ex- : | istence of a world in which our ch.il-1 1 dren shall draw free breath in full! peace and undisturbed pursuit of; their labors. j "To accomplish this great work,j which will be carried to completion, i I we are about to exchange views with j the men of your government best | qualified to help. The cooperation of the republic of the United States in this world conflict is now assured. We work together as free men who resolved to save the ideals of man kind. BIG SHIS SEEDED 1 TU UA'Itlil Most of Money Will be S!?ent In Unit" ed States for Supplies and Munitions. 'Washington, April 26.?Preliminary' reports to the treasury department nnnn which Secretary McAdoo will , base his recommendations to the : president as to the size of the first j bond issue under the $7,000,000,000 : war finance law indicate that the , United States will be called upon to finance the allies to the extent of at ! least $400,000,000 and possibly $500,-, 000,000 a month. The tentative programme also calls I ! for the expediture of virtually every I J -11 ? - * mnnpv in this . UV/i.Ml UJl uw**v?? vv* , , country for foodstuffs. munitions, J j coal, clothing, railway equipment; I and other supplies. | The estimates still incomplete and' , subject to revision, indicate the fol -; i lowing entente needs: For Great Brit-1 j and $200,000,000 to $250,000,000 a: iv. t? fr-r\nr> SIDA AHO 0D0 ' I IllUUlilj 1U1 JC '.i-VV^C. i.1 uui y^vvtvv.,-..., ; to $125,000,000; for Russia a sum un- j determined but up to $100,000,000 a j month* depending largely upon the , ability of manufacturing plants in j this country to meet their demands; for Italy about $50,000,000. Should, these requirements be met in their j , entirety the $3,000,000,000 available j ! for lending the allies would be ex-. . hausted-in from six and to seven and; ' one-half months. It is likely, how | ever, that the preliminary estimates I can be pared down to a point when ' the huge loan could be mat?e to cover j requirements possibly for one year, j Indications were not lacking that j Mr. McAdoo would -consider favor-j ably the sugggestion that he offer I | within ten days another $250,000,000 j j block of treasury certificates to the ! banks of the country through' the fed i eral reserve banks. i Should the government decide to j j finance the allies to the extent or i $500,000,000 a month, approximately ! I $1,000,000,000 would be needed to | meet requirements prior to June 30, i when the first products of the bond I issue will be available. TEACHERS' EXAMINATION. i The regular spring teachers' ex amination for Newberry County will ; be held in the Court House, Xewber I rv, S. C., on Friday, May 4th, begin ning at y o'cic k a. m. avph^uis j i will furnish th * own stationery, j CKAS. P. BARRE. L County Supt. of Education. j 4-20-td. j RUB-MY-TISM?Antiseptic, Relieves' ! Rheumatism, Sprains. Neuralgia etc.! the herald anb news. ONE i j YEAR for only s1.50. ~a ^dr^ni is prod /?\ c SH+si.. itauqua Week in Ne SEIUOrS MENACE, >OT IRRESISTIBLE Admiral de Chair Talks of Submarine Campaign.?To be Overcome Yet.? RrftiKh Sailor Gives interesting Facts Abi>ut U-boats' Activities. Washington, 'April 26?Rear Ad miral Sir Henry R. S. De Chair, the veteran naval officer of Great Brit ain's war commission to the United States, gave a group of Washington newspaper correspondents today a first hand story of some of his ex periences during the two years ne i / nmmnnded a oatrol fleet chasing1 German submarines. Without mini mizing the gravity of the submarine i menace, he confidently predicted thai;; it would be overcome. The admiral said a German sub-j marine campaign on tut; n.an . coast v/ould not be profitable from: the German point of view without ex- | tensive supply bases on this side. He; spoke of the memorable lessons the j allies had learned in the war, and saia j he and his colleagues had come to\ place them at the disposal of the j American government. "I only wish," he said, "that I coula tell you the number of German suu marines that we "have sunk. Unfor tunately, however, that is a navai secret, as also are the means of de-' tection of submarines and of combai- j ting them. Your navy has been fur- j nished with full details, however, by j the present mission." Of the prospect of submarines ap pearing in American waters, Admiral De Chair said: "It would not pay Germany to In augurate a general submarine cam paign off the American coast unless she would also establish bases here. Each submarine carries from eight J to ten torpedoes, besides a limiteu fuel supply which would largely be wasted in the long trip over and back, i "At to mention the warm reception | she would probably receive. Working at High Speed. "Nobody knows exactly how many submarines the Germans are building, but we know they are working ai feverish speed and have heard re ports that they are turning out from two ,to three a week. "The crew of a submarine as a rule from six weeks to two. months training, but the officers ana j other experts require at least three months. "The best defense against sub marines we have found is the armed ship. During the early days they en tirely veered away from such vessels ! and even now only attack them suD-j merged, when it is necessary to waste a torpedo, which can often be dodged, and to expose the subpiarine itself to destruction. We have found that they are very much disconcerted if an armed ship turn^ on them direct ana tmiti tlism Hnwn Li IV/O IU A uii v*? .? ? ''Night attacks by submarines are' not especially to be feared as it is J nearly as easy for a vessel to see a | submarine as it is for a submarine j to sea level. 'Usually they run on j the surface at night charging their j batteries and leave behind them a i plain phosphorescent wake, as does j a torpedo fired at night. Sometimes,; of course, they catch the loom of a! ship on the sky line to great advan tage. It is at night only that they have an opportunity to rig up their small wireless devices to receive or- j ders from home. ? Chasers not Popular. "Submarine chasers are very valu able as they are fast and especially j linrwnnior with thp undersea boats. A ! 3-pound gun is effective if it strike the vessel's shell, but where the sub marine is submerged a 4-inch gun is desirable to break down the armored conning towers. Submarines, we know, are carrying 4-inch guns them selves and some are reported to be carrying 5- and 6-inch guns. Their j UCTION of , f. ALBERT 6>SULLIV/\NS i wberry May 8th to cruising capacity is also being largeiy increased. "It is extremely difficult to know it you have actually sunk a submarine, a o cnmofimos f'nov mor-olu cinl- tn tho bottom. Presence of oil on the sur face is a good indication though not absolutely conclusive. It niay be used for deception. All the indications are good that the American steamer Mongolia bagged one, though it is possible it got away. "One of the great difficulties we have had to deal with has been whales who have absorbed an enor mous amount of projectiles fired m the belief that they were German U boats. "The entrance of the American fleet into the war hardly makes it pi UUttUie Uldl Lll C CJlllCS Win SCI1U L11C11 big fleets in after the Germans, it is net good strategy to risk war ves sels against land fortifications. Never theless we continue. *s during three years, to hope that the Germans will come out. We will take every risk tu meet them, as we did in going so close to their shores in the Jutland ficrht '? Admiral De Chair sketched vividly the long night vigils of the patrol vessels, the terrible winter storm?, which sometimes send vessels to tne bottom without leaving a trace, the menace of floating mines, the hide ana seek game between submarines and their prey and the ever present ten sion and alarm. BYRNES OPPOSES COMPULSION IDEA Second District Congressman Says His Conscience Won't Let Him Support Wilson Proposal. /T-? TT T"V> ?1 1 I Jr. n. .viuuunau, ui o.ue ijlcilc./ Washington, April 26.?Congress man Byrnes yesterday addressed the house on the conscription bill. My Byrnes among other things stated that in behalf of conscription there had been conducted the most extensive and infamous propaganda that had ever been conducted in be half of a measure pending in con gress; that the textile worker, tn? skilled mechanic, the coal miner, tne machinist, the wheat grower, the cot ton farmer and every man who had a job had been told that under the conscription bill be would be ex empted, and had been led to believe that nobody but loafers and the pool room sharks would be conscripted. "In one breath," he said, "the pro ponents of the bill stated that we needed the best army on earth in order to fight the effective army or Germany. 'In the next breath they would have us believe we are to flght with an army of pool room loafers. They talk like war is fought witn Dimara oaus msieciu 01 uuucu. "Every man who has read the bill knows that it does not exempt tne farmer. On the contrary it is left entirely to fhe army officers. No member of congress has neen able to find out who will be exempted, and the secretary of war says he will not state until the bill is passed. "They call it 'universal' and the only thing about it that is universal is the universal support it receives from men over 25 years of age. The war department bill provides that boys between 19 and 25 years of age alone will be drafted: that 4.000, 000 names will be placed in a box and 500,000 drawn and the friends of the bill lead the people to be lieve that every one of the 500,Uuo is sroing to be a loafer. "It divides the people into two classes?'congressmen' and 'con scripts.' Under the constitution every man over 25 years is eligible for congress, and under this bill you make every man under 25 subject to conscription. If any congressman is defeated two years hence he will have the knowledge that he can not be conscripted. The war department XT THE BIG. . irsisnr PRINCESS WATAHWASO SALA-lT^r MARIE_MAY?R ATORE KAPO IAN iWA P THE GScAT 16th. ( t ! wants the ri^ht to conscript a boy { from South Carolina to serve in K.i-! ! rope by the side of a conscript from j ; .Musai^usetts or any other State, I - i - * * ? -.t. ~ ?: ji * ~ v i,: ^ ~ . insieaa 01 cy uie s.ue ui ius j j bors under the volunteer system j j Under the volunteer system the bur-: den would tall upon men from 21 : 40 years o: age, and 110 man would Do ; ; accepted unless his services in tile army were of more value to the go*-' j ernmenO than his services on the farm or in the factory. This is the first effort made in the history or j the English speaking people to en- [ ! force conscription without offering a . chance to volunteer. "In placing the burden on the boys! ! and the boys alone, the}- nave made - , it an infamous and cowardly propu j Sition. These fellows who have been clamoring for war are mostly over : 25 years of age and many of them ; are now advocating this bill because it will enable them to escape service and save their faces. | ! "They say that in order to beat Prussia we must adopt Prussian methods of efficiency. I deny it. The ! success of the British volunteer army; ! refutes it but in order to win we must: sacrifice our democracy and adopt \ Prussian methods. I doubt the wisdom of the fight. What doth it profit us if wA win dpmorracv for the whole world and suffer the loss of our own democracy? I voted for the war re solution and am prepared to defend it anywhere and everywhere, but 1 can not defend this infamous propo sition anywhere. It is easy to play politics and be a rubber stamp, but when the lives of my people are at stake and I have no doubt about a matter, I must vote as my conscience dictates." I HOW TO SELECT FOODS. i Home Economics Specialists Offer: ; Suggestions for Getting the Most ; Food i.,L- One's Money. j The following suggestions on get ing the most food for one's money ; are from the United States Depari , ment of Agriculture Farmer's Bulle tin 808, "How to Select Foods."' j Use cereals (flour, cereal break j fast foods, etc.) freely, taking pains j to prepare them with great care and j to vary trie Kma useu uuuu ua? i day if necessary to keep people froui tiring of them. Remember that a quart of whole i milk a day for each child, to be ; used as a beverage and In cookery, . is not too much. | Plan carefully both in buying and n cr i Do not be ashamed to plan clostj , ly. Thrift it food means providing ; enough food, neither too little nor too much. Notice carefully how much of such staples as flour, sugar, milk, cooking fat. etc., is used each weefc i for a month, and see if there are | any ways of cutting down the quan j ti-ty needed. i Buy non-perishable materials in i quantities if better prices can be place in the home. Xeumbors can tfiorflthor t-v tJkot' 1 nWP[ : secured and there JSO'Mt'lHUCS L1UU sj ?> ? <? -- rates. \ j Estimate carefully lioy nr^ich ot any material will be needed \efore 'laying in a supply, thin see \ that ' none is wasted by careless hanaling. Try to make the dis'ies serves or such size that there vill be enolugh , vjrisl'y f'>e appetite of the fantoly and no unnecessary table and plate waste. ! Do not be above roticing whethe any thing usuable if thrown awa with the garbage, which always j snows bow thrifty food is used in a household. Many inexpensive materials can be made attractive and the diet can be pleasantly varied by a wise use of different flavortngs. "Finicky" tastes in food often pre vent the use of many valuable m? ter,"nls which might be the means of saving money. Good food habits are an impor | tant part of personal hygiene and i thrift. Children get such habits by I having suitable amounts of suitable | Yoods served tc them and then being expected to eat what is set before them. True economy lies not only in buying wisely but also in making the fullest bossible use of what is bought. t vnn rnnw * v-r\ r .'T V"E"T rLA J 1 ivit.l AilU iLJJiiii BEANS FOR CATTLE Will Provide Feed in Abundance for. Late Fall and Early Winter. Clemson College, S. C., April 30.? Farmers who will have cattle to! carry through next winter , should; j provide a place for a field of corn j ?J ?* * * '" nrnnnin cr ! ana vt?ivQt neans m mo j plans for this spring. Nothing will i provide more feed for late fail and early /winter and the cattle will at-! crop/ if you will turn them in on it, I I thereby reducing labor costs to the | j minimum, and retaining the maxi- j I mui/fl fertility on the land. Where : I th^f corn is planted in the usual manner on average land, a good harvesting of the entire: pl&n is to plant two or three Velvet Bj/>ans every two feet in every third rjbw of corn, and cultivate the crop; the usual manner. When the! <7:rop matures, the beans and corn, /may be gathered and the cattle (turned in to clean up the field, but a better plan is to allow the crop to stand and turn the cattle and hogs j in on the crop. If this crop is grown a big problem of providing feed for the early winter will be In I a large measure solved. Write to! the Extension Division, Clemson Col- j | lege. S. C., for detailed intormauon about growing Velvet Beans. Soy bean flour can be used sue- ( cessfullv in making muffins, bread, and biscuits much in the same way , as corn meal is used. COMPULSION PLAN WILL SAVE LIVES Lover Explains }\hj He Favors Ad ministration Idea.?Time for I'Danimity. (P. H. McGowan, in The State.) Washington, April 26.?Congress man A. F. Lever of South Carolina today declared in a speech in the house that he intended to "stand by the president" in the administration's efforts to raise an army by conscrip tion. "I intend," said Mr. Lever," to sup port the conscription plan for raising our army Decause i oenevc wai C,C1J citizens of military age owes his coun try in its hour of peril military ser-" vice. We can not accept the bless ings of free institutions without the reciprocal duty to defend their insti tptions. I am unwilling that the high spirited, patriotic boys of my State and country shall be the sole burden bearers of defending its institutions, of upholding its rights and of "carry ing its flag. "To defeat the president's plan, un- v der circumstances like these, will be T to prolong this war from three to six months. It would mean, I fear, the sending of thousands of men, Ameri can men, into the trenches. "ill almost Uiiammuuoiv the war resolution, in unanimously passing the $7,000,000,000, appropria tion for the conduct of the war, we have shown a spirit of American unanimity which must bring small comfort to our enemies. We have put our hands to the plow. To turn bacK would be fatal, to hesitate, to quibble, to split hairs on technical differences, to refuse to go forward for senti ment^ or traditional reasons, to fail to measure up to the high courage required by the occasion and the Is sue would be almost as fatal. . v "If my future is to be sacrificed,, because I stand for what I conceive to be my duty in the interest of American manhood and womanhood, then I tender that future as a willing ??itTv-\n thp altar of my coun bd.L"l liiCC ui}j\s*a. w ? try. "I have taken no1 referendum of the people of ray district as to the relative merits of the volunteer anl selective draft system of raising .the army of 500.0'00 mui proposed to be raised in the pending bills?both the majority and minority bills. I have had practically no indication in the way of letters and telegrams from the people I represent as to their feeling.. I am sure they are not in different to it. and I take their silence to indicate that they continue to trusi my conscience and my juagmem, aa they have so long done, to do the wis* and right thing in the light of th? information and facts which, as their representative on the ground. I shouil have in larger abundance than thef can possibly have. "But, if there was ever a time the history of congress when me * hp fhoushi bers in tneir acuuu OUVUi\4 mw ~? w less of self that time is now. 3ly T^olitical life is of small concern to the future of this republic. I would ? .orifice it willingly a thousand times in helping formulate wiso policies for the conduct of this war, if to do so Tmeant the saving of the life of one American boy who may be called to the colors.'* StfiTH SUPPORTS SELECTIVE DRAFT Regards Administration Army Bill Most Advantageous Solution N of Problem. (P. H. McGowan, in The State.) Washington, April 27.?Senator E. Smith will support the administra n's conscription plan in the mili y bill before congress. 'I am in favor of the selective ft." he said today, "because those .ted by the people and charged the administration 01 our a; after investigation of the con is in Europe have recommended tlan. [s idle for us to protest against -atic America adopting the policies of Europe during ir for the reason that upon ex actly tfoe same footing so far as om relationjs to the central powers are concernjed as the allies are and in the allies' two years of experience in combatifag the greatest military power ip the world, it seems to me the Dar{ of wisdom for us to profit 4 to the fiiilest by their experience avoiding^ their blunders and taking advantage of their successes. This of course raeans so far as mflitary tact ics are Concerned. The methods of warfare {have changed so radically and hav? changed so rapidly that nothing (but actual experience such as the Eurojpean nations have undergone and are J undergoing can give us any positive jrule of action. Whatever can vindicate! America's honor and can aid in bringing this war to a suc cessful eiid for our arms without do ing violence to the spirit of our con stitution ,and government should be adopted lj>y us. In 1860-65 the popu lation of America was about 35,000, 000; in 1:917 it is over 100,000,000. The divisions of labor and the neces sities of life in 1861 were infinitely simDle as compared with 1917. A se lective draft therefore, properly ad ministered, would provide for an ? army for the field and the supoprt of -?11 oo fnr the support tnai army as ? of those who must remain at home." Food Shortage Sext Year. Yorkville Enquirer. If there is to be a food shortage in this country it will not likely hit us very hard before next spring, or by the middle of next winter at the earli est. There will be no special prob lem about getting through the sum r-1? "Ti/iai- rtr^inorv conditions mer. jcjvcu uhuv. the people can be left alone to provide themselves with common garden veg etables. The thing that is especially and partcularlv desired is to produce foodstuffs?any kind that will be available through next winter.