Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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j?CSS1A>' WOKEN REFUSE | TO BE TAKEN PRISONERS j 1 ear Their Fate Then Would Ik' | Worse Than Death?One of Them ; Tells How She Kan a German Through with * Bayonet. \ j Russia's women soldiers hare' pledged themselves to take their own l-ves rather than become German, var prisoners, says a recent fetro-1 &rad dispatch. Each woman soldier carries a ra-! tion of cyandie of potassium to be: swallowed in event of capture. The | ^ members of the women regiments, j now constantly increasing, agreed; that death was to be preferred to the I fate they would probably meet at the hands of the Germans. The "Legion of Death" fighters are j ""good killers". Your correspondent, learned this when he talked to five! cf them in a hospital near here, suffering from shell shock. From a woman's lips he heard how she had run a German through with; . .. i her bayonet, firing the rifle at tne same time. From others he heard how these women and girls, fresh lroia comfortable homes and universities, went leaping over mangled, bloody bodies in the charge with enemy shells bursting all about them. ' "1 1 Of avnorinnps nf i$UT tnese ctanuwrna -the women fighters Vhave steeled them and hundreds of other girls to a new determination to see it through. L Girl soldiers drilling in the streets I a re now a common sight in Petrograd. ft Huge crowds gather daily about .the ^engineers school where 1,000 girls are ^Hrilling, preparing to go to the front. |^Tn Moscow 1,000 more are training V while Kiev and Odessa have smaller J fcr.nds. " - ^ M V Premier KerensKy nas aiso autuui-j 1 jzea the formation of women marine j K detachments and has promised to as sign them to ships. W The new women commands attempt p ito ^sort of decoration. Their heads I 4i re shaved and they wear the reg t unifrjrms including the heavy, | U1UI XVU ^ I u??y army boots. I The five women fighters your correspondent visited at the hospital were partially paralyzed by shell -shock. One of them,, a peasant girl, smiled joyously as she pointed to a German helmet on ih? bed beside her. It was the first war prize of a Russian woman. "I saw a German in front of me as I ran forward with the others in the charge", she said. "It was his life t>r mine, I raised my rifle. I plunged vith all my strength. 1 stabbed him. The bayonet went-deep into his body. At the same moment I pulled the trigger. He dropped?dead. Then I took ais hat as a souvenir". The girl soldier smiled with de3i?ht. "What was the battle like?*' antier of the legiouers was asked. i "I was very nervous just before! i charge", she replied. "We knew ? order was coming and naturally ! -> T>?4. | H1PB were just a little scareu. dui as j H|f?n as the orders to go forward came1 RffS forgot everything else in the adnfltape. i fill*"coulc* hear our girls yellinS zntii fWhiliifii? throughout the. march forjffiward. None of us were afraM once |S-e got started. We were in the ^Raidst of a great fusillade of shots. B^H^hen terrific big shell? began break?||Se all around us. ' were again frightened a little Pf. we first saw dead men about. r J i - * - v S ??? i N, Paia pun ?:r W\ \ Dr. Miles' L Anti-Pain Pills SM will help you, as they lifli 1tttvA K alndkrl nfK ?ti<a _ rl UHTV ***'*|"??? ? Good for all kinds of pain. J 1 Used to relieve Neuralgia, Head- 1 J ,ache, Nervousness, Rheumatism, f Sciatica, Kidney Pains, Lumbago, Locomotor Ataxia, Backache, ! Stomachache, Carsickness, Irri- j \ lability and for pain in any part | j of the body. ' "T havs used Dr. Mil?*' Antl-Pxln I j w'-en troubled with headaciia, ] - -i ? - ^ f V,. nn* Txi'1 iafalnKlv V | iiliU UliU blMhW V??W f ' Sects relief in a very short tims. I I I am considerably affect#d with ntuj| J ra^ia in the head at time#, and I f th? .* vt;-T\ain Pl!?? of much K a btfuefii. The Dr. Miles' Remedies I | are beyond comparison and I recomP *y end them to all my friends." GEOEOK CCLGAT3. | "ly Oakland St., San Antonio, Tccr. 1 At all druggists. 25 doses 25c. , MILES MEDICAL CO., Elkhar\ Ind. I I " 1 MW T UBOBUHMHMG2M But before long we were jumping over blocidy corpses and quickly forgot all about them". * "We saw vounded soldiers raising themselves 011 their elbows and shoot smnthpr wnuililod I J I f\ y illlVi JVVVVVi MiAVfVMW* -- ~ S-irl. "We just forgot ourselves entirely. We were simply Russia, lighting for her life". Southern Farmer's Opportunity. The Progressive Farmer. A bale of cotton with the seed is now worth $150 to $160; corn is a'ound $2.50 at most Southern points, and wheat, oats and hay are corres pondingly high. Prices or an Kinas of livestock are soaring; and the same is true of tobacco, peanuts, sugar, syrup?practically everything, in fact, the farmer grows. These prices mean, above all things else, that the Southern farmer's hour of golden opportunity nas struct. Never in the history of our country has the farmer had a greater opportunity to achieve that economic independence that is the rightful due of every American citizen. Never again, probably, will we see a time when the whole world will be so dependent upon the farmer, so willing to adequately reward him for his labor. Tn the white tenant of the South and the struggling landowner we would especially appeal to make use cf an opportunity' that may never come agr.in. In ma:?}* a community in the South this fall there will be small farmers, both tenants and landowners, with the fan tn thirtv-five proceeds 01 num ku ?? _ bales of cotton, or from oi^e to four or five thousand dollars in cash. Of c.irse in most cases the "run" must le paid for, but even after this is ('one there is probably going to be a Inrger surplus of clear cash than ever t fore. . The use that is made of this money, the wisdom and foresight with which it is expended, is going to determine the future economic status of many a ~ ** * ~ ? nlnrm i Tl whether fcoutnern lariuei? he shall remain a tenant, a slave tc time prices, or whether he shall b independent To the white tenant farmer, we would say buy land. The ma* whc owns the land he tills, who lires under his own roof, has achieved an in/ dependence that is worth all the e?aV fhft "hardshio it maj ion, Uie w a., uav ?? , , have cost. But in buying, buy wisely. Get good land, even if it costs more, for some lands are dear at any price. And then so plan that aftei the land is bought there will be som money left for equipment and operation. , To the landowning farmers of the South, now is the time to put awaj forever the crushing time-prices system that has dragged many a gooc man down to ruin. From the profits of this year's crops let us put by ir the bank a cash surplus on which t( do business until the next harvest time. x?lvdr this surplus has been pro vided, whatever remains may be usee for providing whatever simple^ luxn ries and conveniences the family maj wish for. But let us make sure o cur operating bank surplus first. Now is our time of opport "*ity Erother Farmer. Improvident w -*t< points the way to poverty; thrift am saving, to- independence. Which road will you choose? The Slacker Propaganda. Augusta Chronicle. In two or three sections of the Unit eci States?and the most deplorabl< thing about it is that most of it is her< iu the South where we have beei It i; horniom onH A mpr L'UclbUUg U L UU1 UClUAOui MUU icanism?there are well defined oi v,-i?ll defined plans for promoting an tagonism to' the government's 9elect ive draft law. There are slackers and slackers, tc be exact, for there certainly must b( a distinction. Thoee who are wilfully [sowing the seed of riot and discorc should be put' in a category differem from the poor deluded creature# wlw follow in their footsteps. If the truth about the thing oo?It be presented to the public, there if | no doubt that a few of the eonnivia? I characters who hare fattened at tb< political trough in the past would tx shown to be recipients of some o the German boodle which is comiaf into this country, and leaders of ? political organization?or any othei effort to create international strife Germany has done just this very thin^ in Russia, and has tried it in the Scandinavian states, where they seni money and dynamite to carry out theii | desires and it is no far-fetcfteo theory to think that such might be at tempted in this country. More is th< pity of it that some of our rampoai self-styled loyal Americans are noi above taking the graft. TTIE HERALD ANT; XEWS. ONJ YEAR FOR ONJjJ $1.50. j Subscribo to The Reral? and News. i:n\<is sen for . against the equinox mills. Anderson Mail. .Jesse Hicks, a minor, by his guar' t -i i . i i,? ? Ciall 11(1 lliein ljlllit* rixt"n?, ii<a.-5 j brought suit against thr Equinox n ills asking for damages in the sum ( ! $25,000. In the complaint docketed in the clerk of court's office the plaintiff alleges that he was working as floor | sweeper in the weave room of the Jirills in June. 1916, and that the floor of the room was slippery because or ithc use of soap and washing powders, | causing him, while attending to his duties, to fall against one o[ the machines. It is further alleged that the ; r.iachinerv broke a large hone in his j lef. leg, which necessitated the am| putation of the leg above the knee. | Messrs. Martin & Henry of Green;\i'Je are attorneys for the plaintiff.! : The case will probably he tried at | ! tl c next* term of the court of comf j n on pleas in this county. PRESIDENT WILSON URGES AN INVESTIGATION. i i Wants to Know Cost of Producing Materials?Announcement Soon to be Made?Desires to Keep ; Prices Down Without Legislation. j A Washington dispatch of Tuesday j said: j President Wilson . turned his at| tentiou today to the subject of war prices and paid a personal visit to the federal trade comj mission to urge expedition of investigations to ascertain the costs of pro1 J-.ronin'rofl hv tbP ?f|V 'iUlKJlilg U.mci two 1 ^ ^ j 1 ernment. ; ! At the president's direction the cora' mission has undertaken Inquiries to determine production cost on most of - the basic supplies needed for war uses, including coal, coke, steel, iron. 1 petroleum, tin, aluminum, wire, zinc, copper, lead, cement, lumber and their ' | derivatives. Preliminary reports will | beforthcoming within a few weeks. !| Announcement of a definite policy respecting war purchases and prices > probably will be made soon. War pro> fits will be kept to a minimum and ' if producers and manufacturers evince ' any groat unwillingness to supply the ' country's war needs at reasonable prices the government's power to ' commandeer materials will be invok1 eu. The biggest problem occupying officials studying war prices is proteci tion for the general public. Although the proposal is meeting determined opposition the administraI tion intends that the allies shall share with this government in reduced costs ^ for supplies. It is realized, however, that heavy ) l government purchases will tend to } raise prices to private consumers. The t administration desires to keep prices generally down without resort to legI islation. The war board will meet again tof luorrow and probably will make ? known a buying policy so far as questions of priority and procedure are - -i mi nlori io tn , concerned, i picrsc-ux ? 3 consolidate purchases through the i central purchasing committee which is a part of. the war board. Trade commission officials in their investigation of production costs are proceeding slowly. This is due, it is said, to the fact that a great burden of work has been thrown on - the ^commission for which it was poor ' ly prepared. 3 The commission some time ago be1 gan inquiries into the fuel and lumbei industries and data ofc production r. costs of these material's will e *-eady soon. v ' Although charged only with an investigation of costs it is entirely likely the commission will make sugges ticms as to what it considers iair prices for materials and that the war board will follow closely its recomm SB-da lions. A KHfeoafc* Slnoker. ^ *? - ?T___ r ureenvme me-wo. ? Klngdoa Gould, son of the multi> iaillionaire> George Gonld, is president ? o? the Consolidated Coal company of ; St Lo*is and the Western Coal and t Mining company. He is vice presir dent of the Utah Fuel company and ,, the Texas and Pacific Railway com"" * - ? Jn thiwt ni'har pany. Jtie is a uirwiui ?v . railroads. He was born to the purt pie and he has lived in luxury. He r is a skilled athlete and is said to be - in the pink of health. The selective draft act was passed > cn May 18. Gould married on July 2i S On August 6 he appeared before an f ---?"Hon in New Jersey and CACUJ \J LAVil wvwt* ? claimed exemption from military service 011 the ground that he had a de5 pendent wife. Tt: New York newspapers are inclined to make light of his claim, apparently being of the opinion that he has enough money . to take eare of his wife. Some in timate that he is nothing less than [ a slacker. Whether he is a slacker or not, he will have to go into the army if his | claim is rejected. Nothing better ilI h'.strates the equality with which the selective draft operates. If the volunteer system prevailed, it is most likely that Kingdon Gould would have stayed at home and let some poor fel- i low from the East Side do his fight-! - -1 CJ. 1 4.1. ? ! ing for mm. me araii rwu;iit:s me rich and poor alike: it is no respec- i ter of place. The millionaire and the ;.<"or (hai> must go together, bear the I sume hardships, do the same work i and have an equal opportunity of life : or death upon the battle fields If that i^n't equality and democracy, what' i is it? Yet there are some people who : held that this is in violation of the . ' * * ri-nA ill American wuamunuu auu in v,uuiuvv with the spirit of our institutions. I'nder the draft, the rich, young man cannot say to the poor young man: '4I have a constitutional right to stay at home, but you must take my gun and fight in my place", but must do his part himself. Both must go. I'nder the volunteer system, Kinkdon Ciould could have gone on clipping coupons and living in luxury, but under the draft system he'll have to s.iare his tent with some son of the masses to whom a bond means a method of getting somebody out of jail. Equality of citizenship means equality of burden, under the draft. In all the history of America what has been more democratic than the draft? THESE TWO ME* ARE THE RIGHT STUFF. Greenwood Journal. Here are two men who want to do their duty in the defense of the United states: ? Caleb DeLoach, of Ninety Six, made some mistake when he registered some mistake when he regis ? a r tered in his cause ior exemption, iu-i ter he bad passed the physical examination he was sent the following to fill out: "Affidavit of a son of a widowed mother in support of his claim". DeLoach read it and sent the exemption board the following reply: am sending this blank back. I cannot sign an untruth". He was immediately certified as a soldier and v. as notified by the board of such action, ancl commended for his honesty in the matter. At first it was thought that an alien would not be accepted for service, but later the matter was reconsidered. But before it was Gus Mark:s, a Greek, appeared before the board and he was told that he would be discharged because of the fact that he was not an American citizen, AfTntpr rnlinir was made, Gus I VJUV %mt vas notified and he immediately expressed his willingness , to serve the United States. Gus is to be commended for the step he has taken. He shows true signs of patriotism for his adopted country. *Why So KaJiy Weaklings V* Baltimore American. It has occasioned much general surprise that so many of the male! contingent registered for the - draft) and -belonging to the age-class between '*Ht:werit?y-one and thirty-one jearsf are'failing" to-meet the physical tests' for-array'service. -Do.Americans grade; physically on the average below * th? British, - the Germans. .or . .the French?'- Or are me txaiuiitauuu | standards s?t up fcr army .service in the United States -more exacting than European' standards? - . We hear of men being turned down because " Of" defective -.teeth. Is not this "a defefct* that- -can -be quickly remedied? If the' phtns for creating the 1,000,000.army do not include a corps of dentists for each draft and volun~rn?nan<?ptive army, teer aivisiuu ut mc . there is reason for the saying that the organization plans are, in this respect, defective. ? But, as Adjutant General Warfield j j bas. suggested, these draft examinations are teaching, or should teach, | Americans of all classes and callings this highly important lesson?that physical training, beginning in childhood and carried along up to middle( | life, or even to the three-score period, j must be made a part of the discip1 * ? ?+>10 family and in linarj sjbtcta. AU VJUV v the schools. Americans in the large | and general are intent upon giving i j their children a primary education in j [ the three "R's", and then, if possible, | I ar. academic training that extends through the secondary school and the college. The affair of physical development is too generally treated with indifference. It is a demonstrated fact that children who are apparent weaklings may be developed into physically vigorous men and women. It has been dene in thousands of instances, and there is reason for the belief that ! it can be done in practically every I instance. THE HERALD AND NEWS ONE FLAK SOR ONLY 11.50, J>I<; LTJIP IS PAII) FOB FOREST LANDS. Oconee County Proi^erty Owners (iet $27,7*2.70 from the Federal Court. Greenville News. I On August t> the judge of the J'nited States district court for the western district of South Carolina ordered paid out of the registry of the court the total sum of $27,782.70, ^cing the proceeds of the condemnation and purchase by the government I [>f 5,121.06 acres of mountain land i situated in Oconee county. This i money was paid to the owners of J twenty-four tracts of land. This is a very good start on the j acquisition of mountain lands in this * - ~ ? ^ O? ,> K o rno nt' til iur III tJ OclVciiiiiau ai ca v/t ( ?>uv Appalachian forest reserve. There are a number of other cases in condemnation pending in the federal court of this district for further acquisition of land for the use and purpose of the forest reserve in Oconnnntv Tha total number of liC/t LVUHVJ . * acres already contracted for and un-' aer process of condemnation in the federal court of this district amounts j to something like 79,000 acres. " j When the lands in Oconee county adjoining those already purchased by the government 'have been ac-j yuired, it is the intention of the government to extend the purchase of 1?infn ard through OUT LlJ uuii laiuoiuvo tu?u Fickens, Greenville and Spartanburg counties, linking up with lands purchased and to be purchased in North Carolina. linrmrOU T II tiiv nmxioii IN SHIPS RISING. (. Boats Sank 23 Vessels During the Past Week. There --^was a slight increase in the loss of British merchant vessels by submarines or mines during the last week, according to the iccneri Wednesday. omciai iiuuiiiicii j lu^uvv. Twenty-one British vessels of more! than 1,600 tons and two vessels oi less than 1,600 tons were sunk last week. Thirteen ships were attacked unsuccessfully. No fishing boats were lost.' Father, Sep asad Mother. York News. It was our privilege to read a letter from a young man in North Carolina to his father. It was a beautiful letter. He had graduated from Chapel Hill .with high distinction in J both the academic and law depart-j 5 An Ambition a# /? f i fHE needs of the South are i? *:< of the Soctheni Railway: the trow I . the apboUdiaf of the other, a 3 : |/t * Tbs Southern Railway uiu no far 7 V accorded to ocherv ' 1 A U p The ambition of (he Southern Ra2 y j naiiy of interest that it born of coope f t the railroad?; to tee perfeced that fair ai ) men: of railroads which invites the I agencies; to realize that liberality of * ; V / to obtain the additional capital needed U " *?* **? A^rr *\ cnla/red facilities lnciaciu w u*? I udvicc; aad. finally? J To ala Its nicbc in the body P?* f at!ber r?t industries, with no more. V npVn and equal opportunities. - "The Southern Sen 'Southern'Hai mm tthink ot 15,uu immm A without a punctu M|lWp tional, but the on Sm:^0WP owners who have sub* treacherous and expe asrents for ESSENKAY, we i service'tbat positively assu HP MM ESSENKAY absolute! IwrSiJ slow leaks?doubles .the I relieves your mma or an i i from the constant drawbacl iw I 7011 not^infi ? Write for free boo: ESSEN H->* 3l8 A I merits. I lis father, who enjoys a Urge practice, had offered him a partnership upon his graduation, and the fir.ure was full of brilliant promise. He wrote his father that he was sensible of the cbligation to him for P'ving him money and love in unstinted measure; for all of the pa* ' ? ^ ^ yl ? * IITUIAU U rt A f i xiLexi ciuwuc v? 1111:11 nau uctn ui uu (alculable advantage to him in his college career; that it was a bitter disappointment to him that he could not inter at once upon the practice of his profession; that he realized what Ms decision meant to all of his family, ?s well as the personal sacrifice that ;t involved to himself, but he knew that if his father was his age he would not fail to answer the call to arms in defense of his country, and that, proud as he was of his own family history, it was simply impossi* 1 ** -? A" Atrn 016 ior mm i'j (.'unsiuci uio \j n i. sonal interest when his* countrr needed his service. And this rrallani boy'3 mother, as we handed her back the letter, said, with eyes full or tears, that if she had 20 sons she v.ouid want hem all to go. As ;ong as America Iils such son J 1. 1.1 KV ana sucu immieis uui cun:. If her noble and gallant son i fall; he will do it with his face to; the foe and with his weapons in his j hands. Her heart might break, but' there would be-no vain regret. There, "would, bo tlie solemn and sweet con- ' seiousne^s that she had laid upon the altar of her country hear ('.earest ai}d tirest- offering. We triut the example of this boy 1 and this mother may serve as an in-! o.iVofinji m others in this hour when, ' the United States is calling upon her j sons to defend her. There will not i r be. there must not be, any pusillani- j mous spirit on the part of oar boys or^ our mothers in this war. There has j never been any such spirit on the j part of South Carolinians, and there must be none now. Those who go to the front,-however, t have the right to expect that their * dependents will be ta^en care of by tVio na.'inn. and by those who Jo not go. i} Not I+ookiug Around. "Love is said to be blind." -a "I don't know about that, but I do I know that most wivf* seem to thiilc I < ' that married love ought to wear blinkers.?Smart Set. , -?? i . ? Patriotic. < Customer?I'd like to buy this flag, tut the price is too high. Can't you come down a dollar or so? . J , ? Dealer?What! Lower Old Glory? Never sir!?Boston Transcript. j ^ \ ' I id a Record: Vi j ientkal with the needs { A \ tb and wees of oae aaai > J / - - ??rM nrinlcyc OAC ! XMW?*m+ r? * -I J . ? 'r y j 1 A r A rce the South.** j : i I p< ? IVn "Blowouts" ! W * 0 miles from one set of casings re or "blowout1'! This is not excep- J Unary experience of thousands of car j >tituted ESSENKAY Tire Filler for the nsive inner air tubes. As exclusive Install it in your tires and eive yon personal res you freedom from tire troubles of any kind. y prevents punctures, "blowouts" or ife of your casings?cuts xpenae in half? worry?makes motoring a real pleasure freo s of the old-style inner air trjbe way. 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