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Y0U1IE LVif NCJlBEiJ58 SEWBEBBY, S. C. TUESDAY, JULY 31, 1917. TWICE A WEEK, ?UI A YSAi
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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|
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'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
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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."
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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
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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*
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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
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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
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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
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' 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
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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.
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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,
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