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1 . /?. 1.*>- t ;|{if |j?ns& m Mm Entered at the Postofike at dew berry, S. C- as ^nd class matter, I. H. AULL, EDITOK. Tuesday January 1 191S NATION-WIDE PROHIBITION. The question of nation-wide prohibi tion v.-ill be submitted to the different ? ?- ? t? olioT^P O f amending the con- ( SI&iKS ill lut - - stitution of the United States so as to make the nation prohibition as to the liquor traffic. The amendment passed the congress toy avery large majority. A great many ?f the States already have State pro hibition and the sentiment has been rery rapidly growing in favor of the prohibition of the liquor traffic. There are two things that are coming "very fast in this country. One of them is prohibition of liquor, and the other is woman suffrage. We are not in favor f either, but one one wlio runs may read the signs, and they are thai this country is going to have them both. You just as well get on the wagon and ride vrith the boys, and the girls, too, r the car will smash you under its heavy wheels. Talk about your old principles on which the government was founded, and J all that, and it if fine and beautiful and j right, but these are parlous times and you just as well get in line or drop be hind. If the constitution is in the way, "nhr we will just amend that old instru ment for which we have fought and died and bled and suffered, or we will just ro on in spite of the constitution. This is a great transition period in which we live, and the old foundations arc be ing shaken from their bases and a new rder of things is being set up. Now, Fred Dominick stands alone again among the members from South Carolina in his vote against amending the constitution so as to give the right to prohibit to the federal government, # ~ + -f r\ rorr. I and take it away irom mc oiaivo tv *late and control, and he is right in the vievr in which we were all brought up ?lown in this country, to be careful and jealous of the infringement of the rights f the States by the federal government, frut this is a new era and a new age and transition is going on and changes are fceitig wrung very fast, and the old order f things is passing, pity be it, but it is true, and we just as well recognize the fact. And after all, while we are not a pro hibitionist either in principle or prac tice, though virtually so in practice, we are about to the conclusion that it is just as well to have prohibition, and to have the real thing. . And the only way to have the real thing is to have the nation adopt it, so far as the States Rights is concerned that is o thing of the past. It is now a centralized government and it is get ting to be more so every day. Every thing will soon be regulated and run from Washington and State lines will be virtually wiped out. We think it was Thomas Jefferson who said that when the government undertook to regulate the whole affair from Washington, when i to plant and when to reap, and all that,! then the people would tn'g bread, or j words to that effect. Well, we have al- j most come to that point. The tendency j for several years has been toward a j great centralized government and the j : virtual wiping out of ?tate lines, and j this country engaging in the great world : war has hastened the movement. If old j man Tom Jefferson lived in this ago mavbe he would chan?ro his mind and get on the wag >n find ride with the l>>vv and the girls. Frel Dominick is rr'ht in ti ? thooiy and the princ^Ie. Tie is standing '?y the principles for which Calhoun argued and fcr which. Lee anl Jackson fought, but tliese are different times and the people do not care for those great prin ciples, and do not argue and fight for them as the statesmen and warriors did in the days that are gone. Pity is that we have not more -men who will hark back to those great principles and l>e willing to stand to them. States Rights, however unfortunately, is a thing of the *7 ^ i great and happy past. It is not the school of the liquor men and the dis pensary, as The State suggested, to which Fred Dominick belongs, or in which he was brought up, but it is the school of the great statesmen who rep resented this country in the good old days that are gone in which he was brought up, and for which his vote was cast. We need more of them. This country needs more of them. And yet possibly if we had been in congress we would have gone with the crew and whooped 'em up for nation-wide prohi bition so that we may have the real thing. It took more courage to vote as Prod Dominick voted than it would have taken to have gone with the crowd and whooped 'em up for prohibition, but he thought that way and he voted that way. The Stat has prohibition now and this thing of amending the constitution is a very serious and a very important ^ and various reaching procedure. There is a coal famine on in New York and untold suffering among the poor people and the schools nave closed down and it is said the churches are to sus pend services so as to save fuel. And then there is the sugar famine and the bread famine and we have not vet got into the war. What will it be when all our soldiers get over to France and we have to feed them and the Allies aud ourselves. The government better begin to draft some of the fellows at home'for the farm and the factory and make bread and clothes as well as guns and powder. Men and guns and powder will be of little service unless we have food and raiment with which to feed and clothe thte soldiers. T 4- a/\a?ma +a no 4-111 tr a JLI; DCCillD tu uo luau luuig io excuse for such a scarcity of labor, cer tainly not forthe reason that a few hun dred from each county have been draft ed into the service. The real trouble is that there are too many who are loaf ing and will not work so long as they have a little money and something to eat. There should be some way to put the loafers to work. There is plenty of This co;:n'y to get along com ?.11.. no*] and there is no one to chcr* wcod and vet any dav ron the streets of theto./n and you may see lots of able bodied men walking around doing nothing. They could chop many o cord of wood a day and not injure their health by the exer cise either. THE BEST WE CAN The Hehaid a,:id News is beans issued under difficulties. We hare no linotype operator and our ad man got snow bound and did not return as be intended. So we are doing the best we can with this issue. The local man has much, live matter that must f?o over to th<? next issue 'Charlie iXest and our mascot are on the job with us. Those who have items or communications trey wish lo hare printed will confer a faavor by send ing them in on the day before press day if they want them printed. A Caddy Story. The gentleman was learning to play golf and it had been too much for the composure of his caddy. The caddy had made valiant efforts at nrsi, uui by the third hoie he was helpless with mirth. The gentleman fixed him with a cold eye and said: "What do you think I'll give you on your card if you are so silly and gig gle all the time? Do you think you'll get a 'good'?" "No," replied the chortling caddy. "I'll get a V. G." "V. G.! I suppose that stands for very good," snapped the infuriated gen tleman. "No, sir. V. G., very giggly," said the abandoned little caddy, rolling on the ground. Will Not Visit "West Houses." In Tokyo, says Good Health, a cer tain class of Japanese are adopting the practice of eating meat, as they have acquired the habit of using to bacco and drinking whisky, through their (Ichiro to imitate the westerners. Some have an i<u:i that by llesh-eat iii'r ilicy may be able to increase their size and v- :<>r. It is noli cable, however, that the .Tnnrmese women' refuse to eat meat and will not visit the restaurants where meat is served, which are known as "meat houses." The Japanese wom en regard it improper to visit such places. St. Paul's Gold Cross a Mark. There is a feeling growing in city circles that steps should be taken to deaden the gleam of the cross and bell on St. Paul's cathedral, says the Lon don Globe. It is pointed out tnat tnese were resided shortly before the war, and that when the sun is shining brightly they afford a magnificent landmark for enemy airmen to indi cate the whereabouts of the very cen ter of the city of London. It is stated that the shining cross can be seen many miles away with the naked eye. Grows in Few Short Months From Force Numbering Only 110,000 Men. Officer Personnel Numbers More Than 80.000?EauiDment of Men Much More Diverse Than in Any Previous War. Washington.?The latest official fig ares put the number of enlisted men in the armies of the United States at 1, 300,000. This is the force that has grown in eight months out of an army which on April 1 numbered only 110, 000 men. Most of them are still in the train ing camps. Many of them are not yet disciplined troops, fully equipped and armed lor battle. But there they are 1,300.000 of them, already one of the biggest factors Hindenburg is reckon ing with for the campaign of 191S. To lead them there are over 80,000 offi cers. When the graduates of the sec ond training camp get their first or ders the number will be over 100,000? as manv officers as there were privates nine months ago. Over 300,000 Regulars. Of the new American force over 300. 000 men are regulars. In .11 the world only two regular armies remain?the American and the Japanese. The oth ers have all been swept away in the flood of war. When the first American onslaught takes place German I md? wehr and Lnndsturm troops will find themselves opposed to an army of pro fessional soldiers. Behind th:> regulars are the 400,000 soldiers of the National Guard, regu lars in experience, many of them, thanks to our neighbor of the South. After the Guard come the 600,000 men of the new National army. The whole military establishment, with the marines and the auxiliary forces thrown in, numbers a million and a half. The expansion that has taken place Is as ir lirana itupius uuu grown in eight months to be virtually as big as Philadelphia. Diversity of Equipment. The first thing to be done for the new army was to provide them with skelter and clothing, iiood and warmth. That large undertaking is all but accomplished. Equally great is the task ol providing arms. To arm an infantry division in the Civil war Meant to provide as many muskets and as many bayonets as there were men in the command. In the present war tfce job is more complicated. There are rifles and bayonets to be furnished .now as f^fcaerly, but there are also grenades v>.d gasmasks and helmets and trench mortars to be seen to. Each of the four infantry regiments in a di vision must have 480 trench knives, 192 automatic rifles and three one pounder cannon. The 768 men of the machine gun battalion and the 5,068 men of the field artillery brigade must have machine guns and three-inch guns in numbers that would stagger an artillerist eren of so recent a period as the war with Spain. Two hundred and seventy-fire thou sand troops were made ready to fight Spain in 1898, though only 60,000 of them were actually engaged. LOGS KEPT FOR A CENTURY House Torn Down in Indiana Shows Timbers to Be in Perfect Condition. Aurora, Ind.?Newton J. McKira has had an old loghouse that was con structed by his wife's grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Preston J. Conaway, more than 100 years ago on the bank of South Fork torn down and has sold most of the large logs. The house was constructed of large black walnut logs and they were almost as sound as when they were cut from trees. Mr. and xfrc T>ro<tnn T PVirinwnv wore early settlers in southwestern Indiana, and the wealthiest farmers and stock rais ers in the Laugherty Creek valley. The old house, which stood sentinel like for more than a century, was giv en the name of Gray Gables, and a number of years it was used as a dance hall, conducted by Deloss J. EJker and had an orchestra of old-fashioned tid dlers. x piin^pf p poisy-r 3 ft: .Si>.l_O THE PLAGE OF SUGAR Derby, Conn.?The sometimes despised and often ridiculed prune has come into its own 'Wli nri tlir> "famine struck v'Me town someone discov ered that the sugar in a dried prune was suflieient to give a semblance of sweetening to a cupful of tea or coffee. The prune dropped in a cupful of cof fee is soon rendered soft by the heat and the sugar and sweet is extracted in a short time. It is claimed that the caffeine in the coffee offsets the taste of the prune so iiuu mc io objectionable in any way. It is being extensively tried here by n}C.n~ persons. GLORY OF ART STILL LIVES Despite the War >n All Its Bitterness 1 the More Pleaaing Impulses Con tinue to Reign Supreme. One great human interest vfhich feels the grip of the war in all its bit terness and no less in its inspiring glories, still keeps its place above the fierce shocks and bewildering changes of the times. Art thrills to every iin- ! pulse that stirs the heart and soul of j the world but it does not lose its hold | on beauty. It yearns with sympathy j and glows with line consciousness of j Hie OtiSl UI1U. LUU3 L LlIiiL S.11C nanuuu wm. tling for justice and freedom can give, but it does not cease to make eternal principles and purposes its fuidinf force, its compass and its chart. Painters still seek and now aid ugain find the very soul of nature'! varying moods. Sculptors still earva cold marble into the Image of life and make it eloquent in its appeal ta thought and feeling. Musieians stm voice the deepest longings of the spirit and speak a language international itnd immortal. Art lives as natura lives, beyond the power of the most fearful convulsions or tue worm b iuij to destroy or stun into temporary par- ; alysis. ! It is well that such a. refuge remains ' open to humanity. It is monstrous that any nation should wantonly strike at so beneficent an element in human life.?Exchange. WILL KNIT IM KHAKI LATER Pretty Girl Working in Blue to First Try on Herself. Sha Advises Inquisitive Commuter. On a Long Island suburban train a rcarvelously pretty blonde girl lowered exquisite golden lashes over large, tt-Vi 11 a wnrVpfl fcnittinar L-iUC C^CO TT iJLXIVs buv . ^ needles over some sky blue yarn, muses the New York World. An elderly male commuter, one wh? had a sporty touch of gold color to hie morning attire, leaned over from a seat on the other side of the aisle ant said in all respectfulness: "My dear child, they couldn't pos sibly wear anythihg of that color?sky blue, you know. You should knit ii brown?khaki color, may I suggest?" She took no offense. "Of course," the girl answered, with out looking up from her work, "bi*t I'm just learning knitting and I'd ex plain to you about some of these stitches iJ: you could possibly under stand. The idea is that I'm first knit ing something that I'll try on myself. Then, sir, if there is not loo much knottery to my knitting I'll go to work in khaki for?for all the soldiers." Subscribe to The Herald and .\e 1? '5 jf*. TJ-> 3 ?? .T. t V* : - i w Ct ?. j. Jii. C-i v. w;- u a nr $ ~ ? 30m, i he <*Ji; r t/ -S :. O "V^ rn ; y L r?v \ , y J-. * cX >' < _ C? 1 15 C* ? />. r> ?> r;1 ^ r> ^ < Ol>0 C JL J;: /"* . iii O' V* ^ - - Make the each week. r-* largest nj~* jJ 1 hlS IS * i flit your cmiaren | cent interest. Patrick's Pi* Idea. i'atrlek had called on his Betsy and Mie gave him a handsoi .e helping of iter spedal make of apple pie. Patrick was lonil in its praise. "I tried a new way," said Betsy, hefiminf. "I put n few gooseberries In (o flavor it." ?? 1~-3 T>? *.?! "!-f o -Pc*\XJ "i5f*jromi : iTiuu jruitiv-js., 11 u. j.*... oosj-berries give 30 good a flavor to 11 apple pie, v/hnt a dnrlint of an ap pic it would be made o' gooseber u.\? entoiiv'y I" British Coiumb:3 Shipbuilding. The steel stcnrr.rr War Dog, the first ship of its type to he built in British Columbia, was recently inunfhed at Vancouver. The War Dog, with a length of 315 feet, is also the first steel cargo vessel to be built in tbat province. Th? contract was fry a Japanese steamship com jwav tfrr?nEgfc an English firm. Since launched she hat b*tm sold to a British firm. Your Bi to cor cu??cm*r? t.he'*r friends w! make our friend? Of Newb "The Bank f :hristmas BANKING JOfo CLiU-B ?Jandyc A BANK \HSO WEE WILL HA^ If W P f ^ A W 0pts. - - ? ? r* ^ > |0 /3y> - * x-- ?. * ?. * ! r. . T""- TJ * "A f h 3 * ^ i - a. v- r * 1 Q :.S3. ID-CENT CLUB 5-CENT CLUB 2-CENT CLUB 1-CEWT CLUB FAY 3 $127.50 PAYS G3.75 PAYS 25.50 PAYS 12.75 layment first and clecr a very popular way. into the Club. Join you! va H. 1 W. \ SPIES IN NATIONAL ARMY Men Suapected of Disloyalty Said to Numbtr Several Thousand. Major General McCain, adjutant gen eral of the TJnited States array, is said to hare the namps of between 1,600 an<l 3.-00 men in the National army inspected of hein? Gorman spies or dig loyal Americans. The lists, with 4ft n WA*A rtATTl Y\ 1 I Gfl Ku I pon on r;njn nirtii, w r-1 cr command em of companies, heads <tf' batteries and members of the inteljl-, jfonce buresn. Many of the snspecf?. it is understood, are of German birth. Internment for some is said to have been recommended bj their command ing officers. In the Easter? cantonment*, it is said, was feund tie largest lumber of snspacts. So?e camps hare aent in as many as 20# msm. The search for spies lias *ot fceei confined t? th? Na- J ti^nal array, bat lias bees equally as thvroujrh ia trainiif camps for officers ana tfetrs. *ank isiness Home YEARS \ s wish of the GE BANK a* d friends and om we hope to P* ? erry, S. C. >f the People" I IT >U GET BOOK wufc.it I ou. 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