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Y0U1IE LVif NCJlBEiJ58 SEWBEBBY, S. C. TUESDAY, JULY 31, 1917. TWICE A WEEK, ?UI A YSAi 1 ? - . . ^ LANSING MAKEi PERIL ( Speaking to Officers' Rese mier Says German Pzof K Possible to Wipe Demo i?.& *. "" BB Madison Barracks, N. Y., July 29.? j W In a speech here tonight before 1,700; * members of the officers' reserve corps J Secretary Lansing, emphasising the! peril of German imperialism to the| - I 'United States and the world, declared | his belief that the German people; would not cast off the yoke of autoc-; ? racy "until the physical might of the! united democracies of the world has; W destroyed forever the evil ambitions j I of the military rulers of Germany." That, he said, is the only way to re F store peace to the world. "Were every people on earth able to! express their will, there would be no j nrarc rvf a egression." he said, "and if > there were no wars of aggression, f 4 there would no wars and lasting | peace would come to this earth. The & only way that a people can express ^ & their will is through democratic insti- j Bra tutions. Therefore when the world H is made safe for democracy, when that .great principle prevails, universal i BHL peace will be aa accomplished fact. Teutons Blind. Sk Ntfo nation of people wili be fit more! I^V than^tbe United States when that time, comes. But it has not yet come. a| igreat people ruled in thought and, word as well as in deed by the mostj sinister government of modern times, ' is straining every nerve to supplant r- \ democracy by the autocracy which f they have been taught to worship. When will the German people awaken ; to the truth? When will they arise J in their might and cast off the yoke _ and become their own masters? I fear that it will not ?be until the phy s~cal might of the united democracies! of the world ha?ye destroyed *oreverj the evil ambitions of the military rul- [ k ers of Germany.'" i / Mi*. Lansing sought\ to drive home 0L student officers the righteousB ness of the cause for which they had W volunteered to. go to France and' fight, asserting that America would! W / win "because our cause is the cause ' m of justice and of right and of humani* i ^ ty" gfc , Character of German Government. ^ H & The immediate cause of our war; H^^with Germany?the breaking of her I promises as to indiscriminate submarine warfare ?has a far deepr meaning, he said, "a meaning whi-ch has been growing more evident as the war "has progressed and which needed but this act of perfidy to bring it home to all thinking Americans. The evil character of the German government isjaid before the world. We know ^ now that that government is inspired "l! -*V5?V '"onaws human I Wittl smoirioiis v\ liiuix mvuuwvu ??I Bp liberty, and that to gain its end it W does rot hesitate to break faith, to vioiate. the most sacred right, or to perpetrate the most inteolerable acts of innnmanity. "It needs but the words reported to * 1 M+tarAH ,it tLe German | Jfl \ C www. _ chancellor to complete the- picture oi the character of his g? ^eirment whe? the only reason why the intensified submarine campaign was delayed until February last was that sufficient submarines could not be built before that time to make the attacks on Sommerc? efficient. Promises Made to Be Broken. "Do you realize that this means, if it means anything, that the promises to refrain from any brutal submarine warfare, which Germany had made to the (United States were never intended to be kept, that they were only made in order to gain time in which to build - .1 - x ?i ! more submarines ana tnai wueu wio time came to act the German promises were unhesitatingly torn to pieces like other 'scraps of paper?' "It is this discdosure of the character of the imperial German government which is the underlying cause of our entry into the war. We had doubted, or at least many Americans had doubted, the vile purposes of the rulers of Germany. Doubt remained 110 longer. In the light of events we could read the past and see that Sor a quarter of a century the absorbing ambition of the military oligarchy' I ; PLAIN W AUTOCRACY .we Corps, Amercian Prem )le Are Dc ing Everything cracy From the Earth. which was the master of the German empire was for world dominion." ? * /nrv n GRAVE TASK HAiifltr EXEMPTION BOARDS War Department, In Solemn Phras'y Points Out Their Immense Responsibility. Washington, July 28?The gravity of the task which -faces members of local exemption -boards in the building ( of America's war armies is called to their attention in solemn language in a communication sent broadcast by the war department and made public *onij?ht hv Provost Marshal General; Cro\nier. Axie selected man offers his life," says eneral Crowder; "it will strengthen you to remember that for ' every exemtpion or discharge that is I made for individual convenience, or: to escape personal loss of money or property, or for favor or affection, | some other man whose time would j not otherwise have come must incur the risk of losing his life." The hoards are told that they are not courts to adjust differences between two persons in controversy. "You, acting for the government," says the communication^ 'fare to investigate each case in the interest of an individual." General Crowder closes with the declaration, vhat the nation j " "* fha "hoards"Will i neeas men ~ receive little praise and some blame.! "T *.^r only reward," he said, "must the knowledge that at great personal sacrifice you are rendering your country an indispensable service in a matter o the utmost moment." Caution From Wilson. President Wilson tonight issued an executive order directing government officials to exercise "the greatest care" I In issuing exemption affidavits to employees in the civil executive departments emphasizing the high national importance of carrying out "the spirit of the selective service act and of se-1 curing its fullest effectiveness by j pledging to military service all active ; men who are not absolutely indispen- j sable" to department work. He said! discharges should be reduced to "the minumum number consistent with the I maintenance of vital national inter-' 1 4V. ~?v./Y,.0PQTir>Tr nf war." j gsis Qurmg tiie v?.. ..? ( "It is earnestly "hoped, moreover," j the order concludes, "that acting in' the same spirit as the federal depart-! mental officials, all citizens who may! be called upon as employers, under section 44 of the registration, to make affidavits or securing the discharge of j persons deemed to be indispensable! to national industrial interests during the emergency, will exercise the j same conscientious ana scruuuuuu?i caution, to the end that there will j appear to be no favored or exempted class among the citizens called bylaw to the national defense/' KBEEKSKT PROCESSES IN STAJEPIN OUT BETfOLT i Premier's Policy of Iron-Hand Rule Brfnsrs Semfclanee of Order From Seething Chaos. London, July 28.?Russia's armies are still in a condition of complete disorganization and their resistance to the Austro-erman onslaughts is only piecemeal. But dispatches today indicate that internal affairs are improvise: to s'jch an extent that hope L? hedl out the reform will extend to the front and result in the siffening of ths armies n oa new line. CHICAGO WELTEB3 IN HOTTEST BIT Chicago, Jui.v 'J?.?Today the hottest day of the year in Chicago, the thermometer registering 9$ between 3 and A o'vshick -this ^cftamooaj No prostrations were reported np to 3 o'clock, tonight . I T "JFI MICHAELIS GIVE OF BRITA Chancellor Tells Newspaper 1 Peace Island Empire Desi Mean German Berlin, July 29, via Copenhagen.?' Dr. George Michaaelis ,the German imperial chancellor, on Saturday summoned a large number of newspaper men to whom he declared: "The speech of David Lloyd-George the British premier, at Queens Hail, London, and the recnt debates in the British house of commons again have proved with indisputable clearness that Great Britain does not desire peace by agreement and understand* -1 - ? ? r\ r mg, DUt oniy a uonuiusiuu \jl mo which means the enslavment of Germany to the arbitrary violence of our enemies. "Proof o fthis may be seen in the fact that Sir Edward Carson (member o the British war cabinet) reecntly declared in Dublin that negotations with Germany would begin only after the retirement of German troops bei yond the Rhine. In response to a question put -by Commoner Joseph King, A. Bonar Law, the spokesman of the British government in the house i of commons, modified this declaration by fixing the standpoint of the British government as being that if Germany wanted peace she first of a'l must declare herself willing to evacuate the occupied territory. French Flan Known We possess clear proofs that the enemy gives assent to a declaration going even further than that impudently made by Sir Edward Carson. You all know thst detailed informai tion regarding the French plans- of j : conquest, approved by Great Britain j and Russia, has been circulated for; I w-pek-s r>ast in the neutral press and that it has not been denied up to the | j present. j "It would be of the greatest im| pcrtance for the enlightenment of the i whole world regarding the true reasos for thecontinuation of, sanguinary massacres of nations for it to be known that written proofs of our ens-j mies' greed for con-quest have since j fallen into our hands. I refer to re- j j ports of the secret debate on June 2{ | in the French chamber. I "I ask the French government this question: Does it deny that ex-Premier Briand and Premier Ribot in the course of that secret sitting, at which ! were present deputies Moutet and Cochin, who had just returned from Petrozrad, were forced to admit that J France shortly before the Russian j revolution had come to an agreement having in view plans of conquest with a government which Premier LloydGeorge described in his last speech n<- orirj narrnw antocracv. &D a wa i u. ?/ ^ Speaks of Treaty "If I ask if it is true that the French ambassador at Petrograd, in response to a request sent by him to sign a treaty prepared in advance by M. Doumergue (ex-premier and foreign minister) after negotiations with the Russian emperor." "It is true or not that the French president at the instance of Gen. Betrhelot. head of the French military mission to Roumania, formally entrusted him w'th a mandate and that M. Briand afterward sanctioned this ete>p? "This treaty assured to France her frontiers, tout amended on lines of previous wars the conquest of 1870 to include besides Alsace-Lorraine, Saar bruecken and vast territorial modifications oi the left bank of the Rhine. "As desired by France when M Tereschenka, the Russian foreign minister, took office, the Russian government protested against the French aims of conquest, which also included that of Syria, and declared that new Rusria no longer would be willing to take part in the struggle if it learned! of these French war aims. Thft SUvrrpt Session. "Wasn't it the principal object of Albert Thomas, member of the French war council, on his journey to Russia to overcome this remorse of Tere- , so-h^rvk-o? -Tbe. ''French govern-ement will not he able to deny all this and it will he obliged to confess, although :s view un's war aims Vlen That the Only Sort or 'res is the Kind That Will Enslavement. it may do so only tactily, that M. Briaud was the obpect of stormy attacks during the secret session; that Premier Ribot was obliged to produce the secret treaty in response to the de- j mand o:: M. Renaudel, leader of the I majority Socialists in the Frencn chamber, and also that M. Briand iu the course of the exicted debate which ensued aeciarea mat revuiuuuua.i.y Russia had promised and that it did not matter to France what was said by the lowest classes in Russia. "It is characteristic that Deputy Moutet. according to his own statement, replied in Russia to the ques-i tion whether Alsace-Lorrcine was th? only obstacle to peace by saying he could not answer the question in that orm and that Russia ought to take into consideration the fact that the Russian revolution had been nurchas-j ed by French blood. Constantinople Unimportant I "The admission of Deputies Cochin and Moutet that the Russian representatives had declared in the course of the negotiations that they attached ^ ? no importance to v.utisuun.muyi= throws clear light on Russian sentiment. The delegates from the armies also are in agreement with this. "Regardless of this manifest proof of the revulsion of the Russian people against a policy of aggrandisement Premier Ribot refused in the secret session of the French chamber trk undertake any revision of the French war aims and announced the fact that Italy also had reecived guarantees of great territorial aggrandisement. "In order to divert their ambitions on the left bank of the Rhine of a character of greed and conquest he resorted to a lawyer's trick by arguing the necessity of creating a buffer * ? state, "but the opposition speitis.ci3 cried out in the direction of contradictions, 'It is disgraceful.' Rnssia^s Army Efficient, "I would like also to mention that Premier Ribot, after a pacifist speech by Deputy Augagneur, replied that the Russian generals had declared that the Russian armies never were in better condition or better . equipped than then. Here appears in perfect clearness the desire to let the Russian people go on shedding- their blood in behalf of the unjust ambitious ofi France. 'This desire has been fulfilled, but not as Premier Ribot anticipated, fori we can hardly presume he had such! an absolute lack of humanity as 1 Though foreseeing the failure of thej Russian offensive, he yet insisted upon | it. thinking it would give another I hour's respite pending the entry of America into the war. "The enemy press endeavored to froce upon my inaugural speech the interpretation that I only consented to j the majority resolution with an illconcealed reservation of Geramny's desires of conquest. I am obliged to deny the imputation as to an object T> n for which there can he no au?ut JUO- | skies, the resolution implies?which is quite clear?that the enemy must also renuonce any ideas of conquest." j Dr. Michaelis added it was manifest j that Germany's enemies were not in the least considering such denunciation and that the French meeting held in secret v/as fresh proof that her enemies were responsible for the prolon-j gation of the war and were "actuated j by lust of conquest." -a ? inotS.ia ! "The conspicuousness ui me juo^w of our defensive war/' the chancellor concluded, "will steel our strength and determination in the future." A Fine Bant. Read the ad ol! the Commercial bank. But everybody knows already what the Commercial bank of Newberry is; that it . is a bank .to-J&pk -on. .If wrote a column and a half about it we couldn't begin to say what it deserves from the community. A Official List of 428 Men / TV *- ' The following is the list as given, out by the exemption board for New-! berry county for the first 428 names j that will be called for examination j from the first call for the 214 men who are to x e chosen. The Herald and News did not reset the list from the printed list in the first list which we made up from the newspaper reports of the drawings, and therefore, the "call" num! ber which appears first is not exactly correct, but that has no effect ?~ as the numbers j uyijn me uiu.. and the names as drawn by the government come in the order of the drawing at Washington as given by the exemption board. We inserted j seven names and took out one which should make the last "call" number, in our list 422 as it is. We have i two 101 "call" numbers and we have numbered one of them "101a" and so with 146 and 152 and 167 and 332 and 339. We have 146a, 152a, 167a, 332a, 332b and 321 has been taken out. But : as stated that does not affect the 1 ^ rrn on/? the names to | numuei s a " ia wmv. ! which those numbers correspond. | This list is correct as published here and according to the typewritten copy given The Herald and News by I 1 I OFFICIAL LIST OF DRAFT FOB 4! I WISHED BY EX I 1?258?Gray, Ezra, Newberry, R l.| j 2?2522?Price, Claude Croseo*, j Newberry, Rt 2. /' .| ; 3?458?Davis, Robert Guy, Whiti mire. I 4?1436?Lake, William Reese, New. berry, Rt 3. i ".? 2624?Suber, Wallace Coleman, | Strothers. i 8?854?Gibson, Byrd Tiller, Prosperity. wiiiip Newberry. . I jaiuco, * i ? T 8?1878?Daris, James, Newberry, Rt 6, Box 42., v 9?1095?King, Henry Campbell, Newberry. 1C?2022?Shealy, E. R., Little Mountain. 11?1455?James, Tommy, Little i Mountain. I 12?783?Long, Norman Jefferson, i Newberry, Rt 7. I 13?1813?Wood, Johnnie Ware, Newberry. 14 ?1858?Wicker, John Leo, Newberry, R F D. 15?2389?Duncan, Callie Ligo-i, Mcllohon Mill. 1 17^9?Fulmer, Willie Leonard, I IV JL.V j Newberry, Daisy St. j 17?2494?Rutherford, Robert, Mew-' berry, Rt 2. j IS?1117?Dominick, Levi, Prosperi!t? , I I 19?1572?Cole, Richard Eugene, Chappells. 20?1748?DeHart, Henry Allen, Newberry, O'Neal St. ?1 ?1QC^?Tnhn<von. Clyde, Kinards. j _L ii/w v v?? , 22?837?Counts, Robert Holland, j Prosperity. 23?2036?DeWalt, Joseph, Newberj ry,, Rt 4. 24?337?Porterfield, Robert S., Jr., Newberry, Caldwell St. 25?676?Sims, Wesley, ?Whit mire. 26?275?Hipp, Dennis, Newberry. 27?-509?Lee, John M., WhHmire. 2S?1185?Dawkins, John Hillory, Prosperity. 29?564?Spires, Bennie Hill, Whitmire. 30?2166?Stephens. Cleveland, Silverstreet. 31?945?Barley, Jaok, Prosperity. 32?1913?Toland, John Oscar, Newberry. 33?596?Butler, Ernest, Whitmire. 34?2620?Ringer, James Ernest, Biairs, Rt 1. 35?1267?Waldrop, James Clarence, wherry. 36?2148?Rfchards. Robert, Chap-1 pells. j 37_536?propes, Lee A., Whitmire. j 38?1495?Sloan, Willie Malcolm,! Little Mountain. 39?2453?Watts, Jesse, Newberry. 40?548?George, Whitmire. laSr-Reejier, ?aYMson; Newberry. 42?1679?Gaffney, Eddie, Blairs, R L ' ' Draft For rom Newberry mi rtl ] me t^userver huu as mruisucu mo Observer by the board. , Notices are being sent out to the 428 names to appear for examination, and if the 214 can not be secured from the 428 names here printed another drawing will be made in the #-?Tvior the names were drawn in. Washington until the requisite number is selected. The conuty exemption board has no discretion in the selection, or very little, if the men pass the physical examination. Dr. J. M. Kibler of the board asked that ?some other physicians be appointed to assist him in the physical examination as it would be impossible for hia to examine 428 men in the time set f.-M- wrtrlr. Tn accordance "with his IVi .? request the governor has appointed Drs. Gilder. Ellesor and Pelham, Jr., to assist in the examination, as we notice from the last issue of The Observer. Of course, The HeraW and * News had no way of knowing of these appointments except through the board or the appointing powder and they did not give us the information. Dr. Kibler says the examinations will begin in a few days. Possibly Friday and possibly not until Monday. 28 MES FBOM NETTBEKBY A8 i'tifciEMPTION BOABB ' > 43?1237?Gosset, John, Kinards. 44?7?4?-Nichols, Gemie Willie, Newberry, R 4. 1 4i??1732?Connelly, Boyd John' Dan iei. Newberry, 826 O'Neal St 46?755?McMorris, Foster, Kiaards, ' Rt 3. 47?107?Medlin, Arthur, Newberry. 48?1546?Wilson, Arthur, Prosperity. - . 49?1563?Troutman, Oscar Honor, Prosperity. 50?2099?Brown, John Henry, Chappells. 51?1369 ? Sprason, John, Nerwbcrry. j 52?616?Epps, Anderson Hennaa, s Whitmire. 53?373?Spearman, Walter, Newberry. 54?1676?Dawkins, Charley, Blairs, Rt 1. fCS 1-7CC Too otiQ T\Q vi JfJ JL m* \J\J A UU, iUW?* wy Newberry. ! 56?1891?Glenn, Mitchell , Newberry. 57?775?Wilson, Ernest Jameg, Newberry,. Rt 3. 58?486?Hensoa, James S., Whitmire. ! 59?692?Yarbrough, Eddie, ?W%utmire. j 60?600?Byrd, Porter, Whitinire. 61?19S6?Tribble, Samuel, Silverstreet. ..62?810?Boozer, Mark N., Prosperity. 63?1539?McFall, Geo., Prosperity. 64?2549 ? Sims, Johnnie Debbjr, Newberry, Rt 2. 65?1682?Gaffney, Robert, Blairs, Rt 1. 66?507?Lands, Clyde, Whitmire. 7?309?Marshall, John, Newberry, Oil Mili Are. 68?437?Bowers, Robert Furman, Wtitmke. 69?1224?Goodman, Will, Newberry, Rt 1. 70?604?Coleman, Otis, Whit mire. 71?43?Evans, Everett Marshall, Jr, Newberry, 1519 Boundary St. 72?2151?wiiuams, isiictc, vu?i>pells. 73?1763?Jackson, Robert Frank, ! Newberry. I 74?1548?Boinest, Thaddeus Laurer.s. Prosperity. 75?1264?Sterling, Charley Freder| icn. Newberry. 7C?1066?Williams, Pearl, Prosperity. 77?924?Taylor, John T., Prosperity. 73?2455?Brown, James Gilder, Newberry, Rt 2. 79?2501?Suber, Clermont, Newberry. SO?430?Adams. Ellesor, Wiitmire. ,81?Xi)14?Jo^^. j#?3pe-rity. 82?1178?Conrelly, Joe Brabham, ICONTJN CJED ON PAGE 2.)