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U*OPE BENE
WALL BELLIGER
j RECEI
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*, Belgium, Serbia and Rumt
of Other Territorial Pi
mats Declare it Ins
Rome, Aug. 14?Peace proposals
made by Pope Benedict have been fie
HBlivered to all the belligerent governJHfcaents.
The pope suggests restoration
HHLBelgltim, Servia and KoumaDia and
^ {Kiceful solution of the problems of
HBgAlsace-Lorraine. Trent, Trieste and
Poland, according to reports received
irom Vatican sources.
V The pope's peace appal proposes
HUthat there be no annexations and no
indemnities except in sleciap cases
IB such as Belgium ana servia, me rciuj u
to Germany of her colonies in exW
change for the occupied departments
I of France, freedom of the seas, disarI
maznent and the formation of a suW
preme court of arbitration for the set?
tlement of future international di9
f put 8.
I The peace proposals will be published
here Thursday.
HAS GERMAN FLAVOR,
LONDONER ASSERTS
/
Hforh Authority There Does Not Think
Terras as Proposed by Pontiff
Maie for Advance
London, Aug. 14.?"The socalled
peace terms have-a distinct German
flavor." This reply was given in an
^ authoritative quarter in London today
B in reply to a question by the Associate
j J ed Press in regard to the Vatican pro
w pusais.
m The opinion was expressed that the
W inspiration for the peace move probv
I ably emanated from Austria and wa3
L in the nature of a trial balloon, as a
prelude to more definite propositions
ijftfrom the central powers to the^ allies.
HBThe informant of the Associated Press
i??Sp?ntinued:
Koan Vnntrn tf> states
11 UCkS> iuu^ UVVM MMW ??
ipBnen of the allied countries that the
flbentral powers are eager to conclude
Sjfpeace on terms of restoration of the
W status quo. Therefore, there is no
Rneed of any protracted consideration
Sgbefore saying what the attitude of
||g>?e allies will be. A status quo peace
mk??
JgSfWATE JftT? JL'AJk
BURDEN Off POOK
Principal Items In Revenne Measure
i of Upper House Fall Upo* Consuming
Public
| (By Basil M. Manly.)
f Washington, Aug. 14.?Interest in
L the .revenue bill just reported by the
finance committee of the senate after
ten t^eeks of dawdling, centers in one
big question: Do the taxes hit the rich
of the poor. .
fWtoat are the facta? How nearly
has the senate measured up to its
great duty of distributing equitably
the great burden of war eott?
Except for income and war profit
j, taxes, all the items in the senate revenue
bill fails upon the consuming
| public ?the 98,000,000 straggling
[ against high cost of living.
The senate committee prides Itself
L on its claim that ii. has distrikated
m the burden 50-50?half on the rich and
I half on the consuming .poor. Bat
t Gr^t Britain gets two-thirds of her
revenue from incomes and war profits,
as compared with the half which
the senate proposes.
And of this half claimed by the seaate
committee to be laid on the broad
shoulders of wealth. $360,000,000 Is
the corporation rax on the next earnings,
which every student of the sub
# 5ect krccrs is simDly pa36<vi o-i to the
corsv?er. ^cluctin.-* ttr's brings the
percentage actually raised from income
ana corporation taxes dowa to
about 40 per cent of the *otal, as
compared with England's GS per cent
It Great Britain takes 80 per cent of
all war profits; the senate on its own
DICT PROPC
ENTS
\rr DDnunQ A I C
V JD 1 i\V/l VX KJ A~M. M-i KS
pe Suggests Restoration or
inia and Peaceful Solution
rohlems?Entente Diplopired
by Germany.
I would be distinctly a German peace
. Pprsidftnt
| ana is me veiy mmg r? U4vu * w
| Wilson and other American statesmen
have long emphasized as imppssible
and unthinkable. All the sacrifices
of the terrible war will have
been vain if we do not conclude a
peace which will insure the world
against a rpitition."
It was explained that on account
of its nature the note probably would
require no format answerv It is ex(pected
informal replies will be delivered
by means of speeches in the
I next few days by various allied states!
men.
I
ACTIVITY AT YATICAJf
Mseh Recent Diplomatic Conferring1
. There
London, Aug. 14.?"There has been
[ great diplomatic activ'ty recently at
.the papa) secretarial, numerous dip*
* ?: wUh
| lomafs having long mitsn^wa ^,.1
Cardinal Gasparri" (pij?al secretary of
state), the Rome correspondent o* the
Exchange Telegraph rab'.^s. "I am
able to announce that the holy see
has addressed a note to belligerents
, and neutrals. The note makes a new
and formal appeal for peace. It invites
the belligerents tc state their
conditions in concrete lerms so as to
facilitate a preliminary UD<ie*. standing.
'This important document has been
communicated *o th?? Italian government
through ihe Spanish ambassador.
The Osservatore Hmr-ar,o. the official
Vatican organ, will publish the
text tonight."
The outline of the Vatican'3 peace
proposals received here demands the
restoration of all German colonies to
Germany.
* ??/>i\/vcolo era fnr a
snmmea up, mg pi u^uoav ?
restoration of tin stit'-s q io nntebellum
with a?l questions as to the
readjustment of frontiers to be left
to undefined "subseauent negotiac'.cns."
j figures, takes an average of 18 per
cent.
j Sritain taxes incomes v ^f $50,000
j 42 1-2 per cent; but the senate comj
mittee taxes incomes of that size only
1 1-2 pr cent. (Some of its members
have icome of thit amount.)
Tr is fru*> that on war profits two
and a half times as great as in the
pre-war period the senate imposes a
tax of 50 per cent, and taxes individual
incomes over $2,0000,000 at 46 per
: cent; but these high rates will not hit
more than a handful of either corpor1
ations or individuals They are just
"window dressing."
The allege* tax of 10 per ceat. ?a
undistributed earnings of corporations
is so nullified by a joker exempting
all undistributed earnings "employed
in the biwines tkat in its estimate
of the revemue to be ratoed from eaeii
source not one cent is credited by tka
committee to this fake tax!
Bag BaQ Safatrday
There will be a game of f?se.baI1
on the We?t End diamond' on Saturday
afternoon between the Weet End
and Bete&bnrg teams.. Tie West Ead
team has been going good fchie season.
having won six games and loe<
four. ?rerybody come and see the
West End boys show Bates burg ho*
it is done. The ladies will be admitted
free, while the admission fo?
? i_ ^ 1P
men win prwauiy ?? 10 cwiw.
The Silrer Lining of the Clond.
the pessimist was suffering from
rheumatism. "Erery bone in mj
body acfees," he complained bitterly.
"That's all right," 3ald the optimist
cheerfully. "You ought to be glad
that you are not a shad."?Puck.
J
ySES PEACE
CHILDREN'S DAT AT
SILVERSTREET .NEXT SUNDAY
Children's day will be observed here
at the Lutheran church \Vednesda37,
?I
Aug. 22. The exercises will begin at
10 o'clock. Dinner will be spread on
or the near the church grounds. We
are very glad to announce that Miss
Rosalvn Summer, field secretary of
the Woman's Convention, will be win
us and deliver an address in the afternoon.
Miss Summer will have a verv
instructive and inspiring message,
vhich anyone would do well to hear,
i The public is cordially invited to le
with us.
PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS
PROSPEROUS PROSPERITY
Prosperity, Aug. 13.?Prosperity
was very fortunate in being selected
as one of the places for the meetings
of the State- Live Stock Association
tfhich will be held at Young's Grove,
Thursday, August 16th.
Noted speakers and educators fro:l j
all parts of t*ie state will be nere and I
a great day is expected. Dr. G. Y. I
Hunter, president of the association j
w ill preside and with such a leader!
a great day is expected. The noted j
barbecuists, Nichols and Garrett will
serve dinner.
Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Nichols have gone
i
to Plains, Ga., to visit their daughter, j
xr r TVimtnw*
! Mr. Joe Wishardt of Wilmington,
Del., is spending awhile with his uncle,
Mr. J. L. May.
Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Wise spent Sunj
day in Columbia. _ ^
|
Miss Rebecca Harmon has returned
from a visit to Mrs. A. H. Kohn of
Columbia. / , j
Mr. an<i Jrirs. j. ^ayikji \jl j
,burg were guests Tuesday of Mr. A. j
G. Wise. j
^iiss Erwin Kohn of Columbia Is
visiting Mrs. J. F. Browne.
Mr. John Grant of Middlesex, N. C.,
spent several day^ during the last
week with Mrs. Grant who is spending'
a while with her parents, ilr. and Mrs.
I W. T. Gibscon.
, Mrs. W. A. Moseley of Jacksonville,
Fla., has arrived for a visit to Mrs. F.
E. Schumpert and her many friendsRev.
C. J. Shealy has returned from
Oglethorpe, Ga., where he spent his
, i vacation.
The Mises Lillie and Mertie Sease
and Mr. Leon Barre of Gilbert spent
last week in the St. Luke section.
n r? V? o c Knon froncfOT
311 . 5- O- DUWCIO liao uvbu
red to Fitzgerald, Ga., from Greenville
where he will still be in the cotton
i business.
Misses Willie Mae Wise, Rosaiyn
Summer, Lena Wise and Mrs. B. B.
I ScLumpert spent Sunday at Saluda, j
"H ^ J /v C \TATTftVA1*Atf
JttGV. 3.11G Jfl.rs. DUiaiiu ui iMcwuciijr
1 were the guests of Mrs. John Crosson. i
Mesdames Will Fallow of Swansea ;
and Marshall Garrett of Green have
been visiting relatives in and around
Prosperity.
Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Wise have returned
from Savannah, Ridgeland and
loltimbia
Messrs. <3. 7. amd T. K. Koirn, W. W.
Wheeler R. K. Wise leave Wednesday
for Athens, Ga., to attend the
!/
Hampshire Hog Sale in the interest
| of the Maple Dale fan*.
Dr. C. K. Wheeler speat the weekend
in Columbia.
Mrs. Adams of Pomaria te spending
a few days with &er daugtxter, Mrs. T.
B. Richardson.
1 Mr. and Mrs. Daris Lindley and son
of Lake City, Fla., are the guests of j
[ Mrs. S. J. Kohn. j
Mr. and Mrs. D. B. Groseclose and j
' eon, Paul of Fairfax and Mrs. J. H.
: Hucks of Ehrberdt are the guests of
Mrs. L?. A. Black. i
. Mis? Virginia Black is visitimg Mrs
S. B. Bowers of Greenville.
Mr. and Mrs. Jake Lindsay are!
spending a few days in Saluda.
Dr. J. C. Peary, president of Eliza-I
, i beth College, Salem, Va.. was a yisitor
r i to our town Sunday, and delivered an
excellent sermon at Grace church.
&rs. J. F. Wise, Miss Nannie SVmn!
son, have gone to Newberry zo attend
! the Sunday School Normal.
J
S. C. ENGINEl
I
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LEE DAVIS "LODGE PR0SPEK1TY
FRANK fl^WESTOX POMABJA
Serretarv Joe SDarks of the State,
council oi ..defense phoned The Her.
I
aid and News on' Monday that Senator
McLaurin had been' invited to spea%
at Pomaria on Friday and that Dr.
Henry X. cfciyder wguld speak at Prosperity
on Thursday/
Dr. HuAter .the county chairman
1
says that he has been informed that
Frank H. ^tfffston of Columbia district
attorney wouldAspeak at Pomaria and
tkat Dr. Lee Davis Lodge president
of Limestone college at Gaffney would
speak at Prosperity Thursday morning
and after that the ?neeting of the
Live Stock Association would take
place. We suppose these two announcements
are officii and that the
gentlement. \\-ill toe on hand.
Dr. Ff E. Dribble will also speak at
i omaria. Dr. Dibble is pastor of Cen
tral Metttodist cnurcn at ,.\ewDerry. i
;! .
LAKOLETTE WOULD.
PI T Bl'BDEji OF TAX
.OX WAB PROFITEERS
V'
Presents Minority Report on War Re*- j
enue Measure to Senate?Will
Offeu Substitute Unless Amendments
Are Adopted
* j ?.
Washington, Aug. 14.?A. minority
report of the senate fiance committee
on the' war tax <bill was presented
to the senate today by Senator LaFollette
with "he concurrence of SenI*
ators Gore and Thomas, recommend->
ing that war profits and big incomes
be utilized as the principal sources of
taxation in providing the country'3
war needs. Contrary to expectations,"
Senator L&Follette did not present a
substitute for the pending war tax
bill. He announced, however, that unless
the senate adopted amendments
to the bill offered by himself and his j
associates, a substitute would be of- j
fered
The minority report charges that'
the bill as revised by the majority
makes but palpably inadequate provision
for raising of revenue needed
for financing the war through the
next fiscal year and that the onus of
1 ' " ? ? IUaaa
taxation has oeen piac.ea upuu muoc
least able to bear it."
England has taxed her profits 80 per
cent without impairing her great industries
declared Senator LaFollette,
instead, her wealthy classes "were
never in receipt of larger incomes nor
were her larger business concerns
more flourishing.
i Heavy taxes, he said, could be ler|
ied on American corporations without
I snv fear of affectinsr capital or crip
pling industry.
"From ^he income tax and the war
profits taxes." states the report,
"there can be raised without subjecting
the country to serious financial
strain and without depriving t^e
wealthy even the luxuries of life, more
than double the amount proposed in
the pending bill.'
If congress were to adopt the Brit1
* A A ? ? ? WA w
isn rate 01 su per cent uu v??n
Senator LaFollette .'said, more than
two and a quarter trillions of dollars
I would be realized in a single year
from this sonre*.
"Nothing that this eountry or" any
country has ever previously andarI
taken in the way of war financing;"
| he declared, "compares with the obliratinn*
we are asnrninsr. We may
| not merely t? finance one country.
We must to a large extent finanee 21
least Are or six other countries/'
In comparison with the average
| yearly wagfe of $700 earned by tiie
: American laboring man, Senator LaFollette
precented statistics indicatI
ing that the percentage of war profits
. over normal earnings of the DuPont
(.Powder company was 1,400 per eerit;
Bethlehem Steel, 300 per cent; Anaconda
Copper, 40$ per cent; Ameri|
can Beet Sugar company 250 per
cc?'., Arraonr company. !-.=>? ppr
cent, and American Hide and Leather,
250 per cent.
In urging that the income tax acais
be increased to lighten the burdens
boroefby the laboring classes, figures
were cited indicatin* that waee? have
increased onlv 18 per cent, while the*
"necesities of life have adoancod $5
per cent.
Tn support of tha minority contcn
5RS WILL GO
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PLANS FOR Ms
' DIVISIO
\
War Department Perfects
First National Guard Troo\
BatallionS. C. Engineers
gineer Regiment In
iWashington, Aug. 14.?Plans for j
! sending the first national guard troops;
j to France have been perfected by the |
war department with the organization j
|.of a division which will include troops
i from 26 states and the District of Co. j
I lumbia. 1
I Tbe states from which the national
guard troops are to be assembled are
I Louisiana. Pennsylvania, Wisconsin,
I New York, Ohio, Georgia, Alabama,
Iowa, Illinois, Indiana. Minnesota,.
[Maryland, Soutn uaronna, unuuiuw,,
Missouri, Virginia, North Caroliaa, \
Kansas, Texas, Michigan, New Jer-.
sey, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Nebraska,!
Colorado, Oregon and the others from j
the District of Columbia.
Engineer Division
"The engineer regiment of the di-|
vision will be numbered 117th . The
first battalion will be formed from the !
First separate battalion, engineers:
South Carolin, and the.second battalion
will be formed of the First sep-'
arate battalion, engineers, California.
"The divisional field battalion, sig|
nal troops wi'il be organized from the
I Misouri national guards. The head- I
^quarters train and military police will
! be organized from the coast artillery
[corps, Virginia. ? i
"The engineer train will be organ-1
I ized from the North Carolna troops. '
The ammunition train will be organ-!
ized from tbe Kansas troops and the j
supply train from the Texts troops.:
They will be known respectively as
the 117th field Dattanon, sign** ;
troops; the 117th headquarters train ;
aid military police: the 117th engineers
train: the 117th ammunition j
train and the 117th supply train.
Strength of 20,000
Discussion of the time and place cf
tion that the majority estimates are
grossly insufficient to carry the government
through the next fiscal yea.r,'
Senator LaFolIette declared the stimatd
expenditures probably would
exceed the estimated recipts by $9,402,307.000
without taking into consid
ration the additional billions proba- j
bly to be furnished to the allies. Tfte \
majority report provided for the rai3- |
ing of only $1,943,458,000.
Considering the loans that probably |
will be requested by the allies the I
Amerisan people will be called upon
during the iisca.1 year to raise at least
$13,000,000,000, he declared.
' The minority members object to the
proposed bond isue of bilious of do?i- j
lars, contending that thia burden will
(become most severe at the end of the
/ war when capital will be needed in
i
the work of rehabilitation in both America
and in Europe.
THIRTY-BIGHT BOATS SFtfK
>
Considerable Anerkaa Tonnage 99- 1
9kir?7?d by gbtbaarteee
'
New York. Aug. 12.?Tbe Cxm^ana
was the SSth American merchant ship |
i destroyed by German and AustrJai j
submarines and raiders since tbe war!
began. Thirteen of these ship# were j
sunk before tbe United States entered
the war April 6, 1S17, a*g 35 sii*e? j
that time. The total tonnage of t*3 ;
ships lost is about 113,Odd tons, in*
eluding $4,&W tons sunk sin?e Aprtf,
.... j
f' ]
No American ships fell rictixaa to <
the central powers la 1914, omky
two in 1915, and the same number ?
191(5. When Germany begi* her anrestricted
siibmarine warfare, howerj
er. attacks on American shipping be- j
came more frequent and America los11
; nine betwc n that time anil the time,
I when the TTnited Statesdeclard a state'
' of war. !
I The iirst American ship sunk was
'the William P. Frye, January 2S, 131a.
1 J
TO FRANCE
ILITIA
W COMPLETED
Arrangements for Sending
ds to Western Front?First
Will Form Part of Eneluded
in Division.
mobilization of the division or of its ,
departure for France are sot permia
sible under the voluntary censorship.
The structure of the division as givea
in the official statement shows it will
conform to the reduced trench warfare
divisional organization recommended
by Major General Pershing,
which would give it. a total strfen^th
with auxiliary troops of approximately
20,000 men. The two inr'antry brigade
formations, each brigade to be ^ ?
composed of two regiment3, indicates
a very large increase in the sizes of
infantry regiments. The fact that numerical
designations have be n assigned
to these brigades thro, ghoat,
also indicates the adoption of .the
European battalion administrative
unit system, although the regimental
organization of three battalions to a
regimen^ is retained.
While no explanation 01 ine
for forming this composite divislea
as the ftrst tactical organization of
the national guard to be perfected
since the state troops were draftd
into the federal army, it is known that.
the plan has been endorsed by the ,
' 1
governors of virtually all the states.?.
The effect presumably "will be to
solidify the national 'guard and to giro
the whole country an interest in the
division which might not be so strong
if the troops from any one state iiad
been used to form this tactical unit.
* Washington, Aug. 14.?The commanding
officer of the division will
be Brigadier General W. A. Mann
the regular army, no"*" chief of th?
divisions of military affa.'-s of tlie war
department.
DR KItfARD BACK TO mSTHROP
Rock Hill Record.
We are sure that Rock Hillians,
r
and believe that the general p<ublie
will be delighted to tearn that Dr. J.
P. Kinard will return to Winthroa
College, as one of the faculty for the
pnmin? session.
'He and hia estimable family will
be most cordially welcome back to
I the city, and will take quite an addi!
tion from many standpoints. Dr. KiaI
ard is a splendid educator as was
demonstrated by his many previous
years of instructing at Winthrop
and the demand that took him away
to the Citadel and then to Anderson
. College. For the past year he lias
been, superintendent of the eftJ
I schools at Newberry. Dr. Kjnard ia
now at Uairersity of Chteago taking
sj>eGial stttdie*.
STARTS
i Gziktoj Leaser.
i
Rev. A>m Cl&rj, pastor of tie Ht?
I '/afeor Baplitt ekiroh, Waekiagtox,
| D. G., Wdakiag^on Times e&ys, w*m
be fcrst to ?eirtribnte to tke $?94 rei
ward ?*Ri lor the apprebensio* of tkd
*>r?ta! aawrderer o! Lottie Mae Brsm:
eioa at ker fcome in LnaaiK>liB.
| Mr. Clary is a son of Mrs. Mary
! Clary aad brother o! Messrs. Barney
| and DrayWi Clary ?f th,* e?ty.
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MITTIS BBUG fllL*
I IT BE8H MTlB CSTB6H
j TflBe?e was a )arf? attendance at thd
services ?? the Bwsfc Rirer Baptist
! ehtir*h ?onulay, the beginning of
; ?]!>e ial ?rervloes to be continued
" 1V? """l' TTho rvaotr*^ T?-p V
EOXOUga "Tjca. J. "V. .
1 JL H. Barries, is being assi?fted by
i "Rey. IS. C. Watson of Blackville. a
; former jtestor of Bisb River. The
L ;r I.x/.A~ ; ? v> ' n r. Mr? . l. . . - |
services are being held at 11 o'clock
in the morning and at 8 o'clock at
night. - J