The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, January 11, 1918, Page FOUR, Image 4
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E. H. AULL, EDiTOIi.
Friday, January 11 191S
Snmp nnp tcld us the ether day
that we used four colums of one issue
to tell that we needed a linotype
operator. "Well, that may be true.
We have been put to great inccmven- f
iences and expense even to get out a j
sorry paper, and we hate to print a jJ
sorry paper, because we know that we ;
can make a good one in our part of it. i
Charlie West is coming along pretty j
well and it the war will just ena De- ;
fore he is called we will get along all- j
right. He set all the type we are j
using for this issue, but of cours we <
had a great deal more good stuff that
we could have printed, and it is a
pity to waste it.
The presuleiit's speech to congress
sounds like an early peace to us. We
are mere strongly entrenched in our |
view that the war will end before the j:
spring and that President Wilson is i
the man of destiny to bring lasting i
peace to the world. The same that |
we said more than two years ago before
this country was engaged.
One member of the legislature had
the temerity to offer the suggestion ,
that it was a violation of the constitution
for a member to hold two offices,
but the legislature would not even
recieve the resolution If it had ad- ,
opted it, as itj should have done, that
is if it wants to obey the plain mandate
of the constitution, there would .
have been several vacancies. The
constitution says that the acceptance j
of another office vacates the seat in j
the legislature and if it is applied to |
some little magistrate ^ho wanted al 0 j
to be intendant of his town the con- i
stitution would be enforced but not
to a member of the legislature, nay,
nay.
In the list of the sanitary rating |
the markets The Herald and News |
printed J. M. Counts as 85 per cent i
perfect. It should be JH) per cent \
perfect. !We regret the error. It was ;
ours and we gladly make the correction.
Mayor Wright is right. We should j
.
spare the birds. There is no good in
permitting such sport. And in these
times of trying to conserve everythng '
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tha n? snrfi etins and ammunition !
akd the labor used in the sport might
very properly be directed in other and
useful channels.
ITEMS FRQM WHITMIRE.
A happy New Year and best wishes
to the Editor and the Herald and <NewR*
At the Municipal Election held here
Jan. 5th the following officers were
elected?Mayor-S_ A. Jeter; Allermen,
R. M. (Bullard, J. A. Darly; J. G
Holder, and W. R. Watson. j
Messers Wm Scott and Jno. W. !
Hippp have bought out the interest of
Mr. C. H. Cooper in the merchantile
establishment of C. H. Cooper Co. j
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Ledgers, Jrurri
Cash Borks, I
Record Bock.%
and Memcrare
Start the New Year Wi
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Mayes ct
The House cf a 1
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Thee enterprising young men will bo
J?!rul to welcome their friend to tho
stove and will givo them a fn.ir deal.
Wm Coleman Co., Bankers, anr The
Fnnk of Whitniire have consolidate1.
The busing of thee two banks will
be done at ""the cf the Ban.'?
o Whitmnv .Mr K K Child is
iosident of tV b.mk t:n:s ionr.cn
v a -V "S. YOal?o:i Cn-'siiv"*.
Mr. H. C. Leaman, who hns boon
cashier of the bank of Wh Coleman
and Co. Bankers has acre 'tea a position
with the Palmetto National
Ban!; of Columbia.
Mrs. S. A. feter recently. For the
past seven years T. C. ]bter ir.i"
held the position bookeeper in the
Palmetto National Bank. On Dec.
14-th he was -called into the service of
his country. He is now at Headquaters
Sanitary Detachment. Camp Jackson'.
The following students spent the
Christmas holidaays he-re with' thei:
sume their studies in the following
colleges,?Roy Suber and Joe Dunc&nClemson,
John A. Jeter Erskin. Oscar
Nance-South Carolina University.
Ernest Hurt and Ruby Hrru-Drauo-hons
Business College, Victorii
Jeter, Nettie Hurt, and Emmie Duncan-Columbia
College, Ruby Zei^ierGreonville
Female College, and
"pjujjoAv-'jf isoa 'H uy-Tv'
Mrs. Edith Hill and son. Coleman
Lyles Hill of Chester are visiting Mr.
and Mrs. J. B. Pitts.
Mr. Otis Suber of the Coast Artillery
Fort Moultrie is here spendinT
\ few days with his parents, Mr. a : 1
Mrs. Z. H. Suber.
Mosscrs T. H. and A. M. Watson
*n-l their famlies spent the Christum^
holidays with relatives at Banihorg.
Mr. Geor.ee Young, who for the nart
-e^rnl v^ars has been an emnlcfye'1
of the S. A. L. R. R. in Florida i^
'isitino- hisfather, Mr. J. I. Young
before answering the colors.
Dr. T. P. Woods of Fort dethrone
^fter snending several days here with
Mrs. Wood and little Brother has
returned to his post of duty.
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Mrs. tt. -VI. JL>?uun.trnL u.uu tiumicu
snent the holidays with her parents
in Clio. Thoy have returned home
Mr and Mrs. T. L. Miller end Mr
FL M Miller have returned from a
visit to relatives in Cross Hill.
:~i5 C. Jct-^rs, Principal of
l"io ^hools at Rormma-i. S. C.
thp .holidays with he-^rents.
Mr. and Mrs S. A. Jct^r
"^e will resume her work Jan. 14th
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TRCF m IMRING TANKS 1
: DON'T ASTONISH DANIEL g
Washington. ? Secretary Jo- e
J sephus Daniels of the navy de
partment is nothing if not blase.
J Recently, when he was in- J
specting the marine corps camp
2 at Quantico, Va., enthusiastic J
officers demonstrated some new
tank style gun tractors for him. J
They ran the machines on the ?
level, then up grades and over J
obstacles. Secretary Daniels en
joyed the demonstration, but did ?
not burst forth into expressions ?
of great wonder. a
J Then the officers volunteered J
to run a machine down into a ?
J trench, up the side and out J
again. Another said he could
J make his machine climb a wall, J
but Secretary Daniels led his o
J party on to inspect something J
else. ?
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chines in France that will climb J
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I EDITH CAVELL'S
| Seeks Vengeance for Brutal Murder
of His Boyhood
Companion.
NOW Hi THE SiSHtl CQiu-o
Rejected Many Times by Recruiting
Officers in United States and Canada
cn Account of Small Size
?Wants Blood for Blood.
Camp Gordon, Ga.?There is one lad
i wearing khaki in this camp who eni
tered the army with a fixed determin;
ation to avenge a deeply seated prij
vate wrong.
j He is Lawrance R. Cavell of Chii
cago, first cousin and boyhood companion
of Edith Cavell, the English Red
Cross nurse whose execution at the
hands of a German firing squad in
Brussels sent a thrill of horror through
the world.
It was no easy matter for young Cavell
to break into the army. Not until
after several vain attempts, both in
the United States and in Canada, did
he succeed in .setting himself straightened
out on the firct quarter of the
course which he ^""pects to lead to the
satisfaction of his desire for revenge.
I At the time of the murder of his
! cousin he was only eighteen and small
for his years. His father had been engaged
in business in Chicago since he
had transplanted the family from the
native heath in the county of Kent,
England, some years before. Kent was
also the ill fated nurse's home, and as
a very small boy young Cavell had developed
an admiration and affection
for his cousin, some ten or fifteen years
his senior, that bordered almost on
adoration.
Rejected by Canada.
j Inexpressibly shocked by the news
of his cousin's atrocious death, the
boy immediately presented himself to
the agents of the Canadian recruiting
forces in Chicago for enlistment in
the overseas service, but he was rejected
on account of his age and size?
he was many pounds underweight. He
even went to Canada and brought alt
the political influence he could compass
to bear in order to carry out his
purpose, but again was turned down.
| No one could have hailed the en.
trance of America into the war with
more real joy than he. It would give
him his long awaited opportunity to
gain some recompense for the murder
of his cousin, he thought. He was
again doomed to disappointment. A recruiting
officer told him that he was
; too small. Nothing daunted, he car'
ried his case to Washington in person
; and the matter was placed before the
war department through an influential
army officer in Chicago.
Permission was given him to volunteer
in the signal corps, and this he
iid in Chicago last June, He has just
been transferred to Camp Gordon as a
member of the outpost company of the
317th signal battalion under Major
Hemphill. Eagerly devoting himself
to his duties and apt to learn, he already
has been scheduled for the rank
of tOD sergeant in his company. He
also has developed his physique until
now he is as hardy as the best soldier
in the army. He hopes for a transfer
to the aviation section, as it is the goal
of his ambition to hurl bombs on the
Boches from the air.
A visitor to Camp Gordon this week
to see his son, Cavell's father called
on Captain Allen of the outpost company
and recited the story of Lawrence's
long baffled determination of
revenge, a thing the boy himself had
been too modest to do.
Like Oldac Sister to Him.
# The
father said the lad -had been
brought up in the same house in Kent
with Miss Cavell, and that her relationship
to him was rather that of a
devoted elder sister than of a cousin.
"It matters not what branch of service
I am in," the boy told his father.
"I shall die satisfied only when I have
drawn blaod for blood, and I pray God
to live to see that day. I expect to.
He will answer my prayer.
"Edith was murdered without a
hearing ir* cold blood by the kaise:*.
Slie was an i^Dgnsn gin, ana intjy
sang the hate song over her dead body.
I expect to sing the song of hate over
the dead bodies of Germans. No sacrifice
is too great, no punishment too
severe, no hardship too trying; death
itself a coveted reward, just so I am
permitted to put bullets into German
hearts as that firing squad under orders
put them into my rousin's heart.
I am in the war for a purpose and I
shall accomplish it."
Deeply grained us his hatred of the
HI r. r'nxroll
"XtULOIl luce I'UU giutui, VUIWI
said that his son had no quarrel with
individual Germans. Scores of them in
Chicago, he added, had expressed to
his family their horrified resentment
of the execution of Miss Cavell.
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Chance to Marry Free.
Lorain, O.?Mayor L. M. Moore of
Lorain has been mayoring two years,
and has not yet performed a marriage
ceremony. Now he wants to marry
some couple before he becomes an
"ex" and before his powers as a matrimonial
splicer expire.
"I have read up on the requirements
and believe I can do a good
job," said the mayor.
uA!l I need is a couple. To tne
first applying I will marry them free,
aixd give the bride a present."
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iS HOME MADE
Can Be Continued Indefinitely In
South If Farmers Do Their Part,
Sa>*s Kactings
Allantn. Ga.?(Spec:al.)?That the
prf-iii wave of "farm prosperity" in
the South is "home made" and can he
continued indefinitely is the interest
i i'-^ siaitun-ai uiiiue ieui"iiu? uy i>.
G. Hastings, President of both the
South* astern Fair Association ajid the
Georgia Chamber of Commerce. Mr.
Hastings said: "Unthinking people are
very apt to attribute the present wave
of farm prosperity in the South to the
present high price of cotton rather
tl^an to its real cause."
"Naturally, the high price has helped
a great deal, but the real reason for
the money being in the farmer's pocket
or bank is that when the 1917 cotton
crop was made the farmer owned
it instead of owing it to supply merchant
at the end of the season, as was
usually the case in times past. Never
before had the farmers of the South
come as close to feeding themselves,
their families and their live stock
from their own acres as in 1917. They
' v.! need of few store purehr.nos r.r 1
i.aie few or no debts."
if the 1917 crop had boon made ci\
t. t.* u.^4 iAu*is ci plane ali cotton
*;y a!J ford at present prices there
vc'ui'.l be suoiilv merchant prosperity.
but little or none on the farms."
"Naturally, the temptat.'cn is gro-t
to increase cotton acreage and decrease
food and grain acreage in 191S.
The man who does it is foolis: The
whole world is short of food anu i :s
condition will not only continue lnu
get worse as long as the war lasts.
Continued high prices for food is as certain
as -sunrise each morning."
"Real money-in-liand farm prosperity
is nhsolntelv dpnpnd^nt on tho
growing on one's own acres of all the
food, meat, grain and forage needed
for home needs. Once that is provided
for, every other available acre
can safely be planted in cotton or other
cash crop. The larger part of the cost
of making cotton or other cash crop is
in the food, grain and forage consumed
in making it.
"These items 'hDine made' can be
produced at from one-third to onehalf
the price the merchant charges
and home production of them means
just that much reduction in the cost
of niaking the cash crop. *
"Farm prosperity in the" South can
and will be permanent just as long ao
our farmers continue their farm opei*
ations on a 'home made' basis."
GERMAN TROOPS ARE
RUSHED TO CAMBRA1
Geneva, Friday, Dec. 7.?Both Field
Marshal von Hindenburg and Gen. v<">n
Ludendorff are on the Cambrsi front,
According to a disnatch from Stressburg
today. Railway traffic through
lie Rhine towns has been congested
from this source, owing to the flow of
froons and artillery being rushed
'brousrh to this front. No civilians are
permitted to travel along the Rhine
and the German frontier remains
closed.
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Showing Condition al
Loans asid Investt
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U. S- Bones
Cash and Die fro
Capital Stock
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Dividends Unpaid
Deposits
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President
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