The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, January 25, 1918, Page TWO, Image 2
FOOD SHORTAGE IN I
i FRANCE GROWING?
at
DENMARK AND SWITZERLAND
ARE FACING A REDUCTION OF b?
WHEAT RATIONS. w
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WAR INSURANCE IS POPULAR ?
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>AppKcations Near the Three Billion
Mark?All Adult German Alien Ene- *a
mies in United States Must Regis- ^
tor.
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jiFrem Committee on Public Information.) ai
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Washington.?According to the food
administration, shortage of wheat in gl
F/amce is becoming more and more V(
alarming each week. The minister of
general revietualing indicated recentlj
that a further reduction of 20 per cent ^
in the bread ration would soon become m
imperative.
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Denmark is now looking forward to ^
a reduction of wheat rations. Final ^
figures for the cereal harvest show a fj(
total of about 62,000,000 bushels, which
Is 20,000,000 bushels less tban in 191G .
and about 10,000,000 less than was e<- }.
timated in the summer, when tile pop- ^
Tilace was put on bread rations. The ^
authorities are already considering a
further reduction in the allowed consumption.
The food situation in Switzerland is er
rapidly falling to the danger line. A ro
ration that is far below the consump- ^
v or
tion in many of the countries at war
has already been ordered. Under the &
new regulations the Swiss may have &1
only a pound and a half of sugar per
person per month. The bread ration
has been fixed at about half a pound T
a day, and the butter ration at one- fa
fifth of a pound a month.
Applications for war-risk insurance
by men of the army'and navy have se
nearly reached the $3,000,000,000 mark, Sl
and continue to come in at a rate of Ui
about $60,000,000 a day. The average e:
amount applied for per man is $8,630, le
the average having increased steadily ?*
since the act went into effect, Oc- fo
tober 6.
For persons who joined the colors oy
before October 15, 1917, the last day tc
for applying for government insurance
is February 12, 191S. Intensive ef.
forts are being made by commanding 1U
officers to have all their men take in- c:;
suranee before that date.
The maximum amount which may C?
be taken by any man is $10,600.
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Among the regulations for the regis
tration of German alien enemies in me
United States during the first week of
February, are the following:
All German males of the age of four>-teen
years and upward are required *?
to register. Notice of time and place ?*
of registration will be given by pub- 1D
lication in newspapers. NV
The affidavit of etch registrant must al
be accompanied by four unmounted s*
cicrnoii PTOSS thft faOe ^
piiuiu^ia^nc, . ?
so as not to obscure the features, and cl
the finger prints of each registrant 111
shall be taken. r5
Between 10 and 15 days after registration
each alien enemy must again L<
appear before his registration officer 4i
to obtain a registration card, which oi
will bear his name and his left thumb st
print. This card must be carried by fa
the registrant for future identification, w
An alien enemy who changes his ei
place of residence to another place
within the same registration district si
must at once report the change to the pi
registration officer. No alien enemy ti
shall move out of the district without ti
a permit. Application for a permit
must he made upon a form furnished
by the department of justice, giving c,
fu!I particulars as to date, reason for tr
change, and intended place of residence.
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To increase France's crops and to
lighten the burden of toil on her old t.
men, women and children 1,500 farm g
tractors will go to that country from . '
the United States. The first hundred
are already on the way, and the whole
number will be in France by March,
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in time for tne spring piowmg.
space was provided for the first shipment
on a naval transport. Schools '
of instruction will be organized.
lue acreage sown to crops in the
uninvaded portion of France in 1917
was about 10.000,000 acres less than a
in 1913, or 24.4 per cent. The in- s<
. creased production through the use of r
tractors this year is expected to great- P
ly improve the food situation. b
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According to records of the selective
service, country boys do not show P
much physical superiority over those r
of the cities. For purpose of compari- n
son selection was made of cities of r'
40,000 to 500.000 population, and a cor- 0
' responding set of counties of the same
toial size. In the physical examina;
tions 2S.47 per cent of the city boys <>
wve rejected, as against 27.9G per cent ?
of the country boys. e
i Theaters and restaurants in i?en!
mark close at 10 p. m. to save lights, i
To save kerosene, which is sold at a n
I price regulated by the government at r
: 72 cents a gallon, Greenland whale oil i
^is being tried for lighting. It is esti- f
i mated 200,000 acetylene lamps are uow 1
| in process of manufacture.
j The distillation of all kinds of a'co:
hoi except for industrial uses is pro- <
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i hitutea. a lanre part ui mc
alcohol will be needed for use in tlie <
.new incandescent lamps.- \i is c.sti- I
-mated that 2.000 tons of jrraiu will bt (
enved hv the new regulations. i
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The committete on public informs- ,
Dn has made the following transla- I
jn of a story appearing in the Oc- |
ber 15, 1917, issue of the Leipziger
olkszeitung:
"A sample of the fashion after
nich bloated landlords treat the wives
! soldiers has been brought to our
tention from Upper Langenau in
lesia. One of the hired men of Docr
Mueller's agricultural estate has *
?en for a long time at the front. His
ife, who had worked alongside her
lsband before the war after the usual
istom, remained in the ranks of the
jld hands and accordingly retained ^
ir farm cottage. October 1 this worn- 1
i got the following letter:
" 'The undersigned baliff of the este
hereby gives you notice as of this
ite to the field service for January >
1918. On that day you are to give
) your liouse. The work which you
e doing on the farm does not com?nsate
the farm for the loss which
?crues to it through the continued
ipport of your family. Look out for
mrself away from this farm, your "*
)use is needed for other use.' *
"The woman communicated the notice 2
> her husband with these words: 'I f
ust tell you my distress, soon I shall I
)t be able to see the paper for my c
ars. What shall I do? Winter is at i
ie door and the cottage is full of lit- j t
^ y j v
e uuiuiciJ. , ?
"Thus the bailiff of the estate of a ,r
oated landlord turns a family with j I
?ht children out of doors in midwin- I p
r while the man is at the front. | a
ominent takes care of itself."
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War credits extended to foreign gov- s
nraents since the United S'ates en- i i
red the war total'' $4,230,400,000. Of J g
lis Great Britain received .$2,045,000,- ! r
K>: France, $1,2S*000.000; Italy, I i
i00.000.000; Russia, $325,000,000: Bel- i j
ura, $77.400,000; Serbia. $4.00j.000.
It is estimated that 50,000 different j c
tides are needed *in modern warfare. : t
hp pinthinpr pnninment of but one in- ; r
0 _
n try in an for service in France m- z
udes the following: s
Bedsack, three wool blankets, waist g
ilt, two pairs wool breeches, two wool E
>rvice coats, hat cord, three pairs z
imrner drawers, three pairs \\inter q
awers, pair wool gloves, service hat, a
stra shoe laces, two pairs canvas j r
ggins, two flannel shirts, two pairs z
\ shoes, five pairs wool stockings, ^
ur identification tags, summer un- c
?rsii: ^ts, four winter undershirts, J
?erec five shelter tent pins, shelter , t
Hi pr xmcho, shelter tent. ^
I-Is j - "eating utensils" the in-1
ntryman ?ceives food to be carried J
his haversack during field service, j
mteen and canteen cover, cup, knife, j ^
?rk, spoon-meat can, haversack," pack j ~
irrier, first aid kit and poach.
Ills "fighting equipment" consists of jE
fle, bayonet, bayonet scabbard, cartdge
belt and 100 cartridges, steel helet,
gas mask, and trench tool. (
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To help increase the pork supply th? ?
?partment of agriculture has released j ,
- motion picture theaters, through one j
' the large companies, a film show- j
ig the work of the boys' pig ciuds j
hich the department is organizing in j
1 parts of the country. The film ; *
lows methods *)f instructing farm | *
)vs who have joined the agricultural ; 1
ubs how to raise better pigs and the ;
ethods used by club members in car-; \
-ing out instructions. J <
The first pig club was organized in i
ouisiana in 1910. Now approximately 1
>,000 members are enrolled through- \
it the country. Clubs in several j
ates are planning to send carloads of
it hogs to fairs and stock shows, alter (
hich they are to be marketed co-op- : j
atively. <
Other moving pictures being used to \
low the importance of increased food 1
reduction sliow activities in the na- j
onal forests, important sources of ]
mber and water supply. ! (
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Athletic work in army camps and }
intonments is in the hands of 32 ]
ained organizers and coaches. They j
re civilian aids on the staffs of cornlanding
officers, and their salaries are ]
aid by the government. ?
Particular attention has been given s
) boxing, as it assists men in bayonet ,
phting. A committee of best-known ^
oxers worked out plans, and moving
ictures to teach boxing have been f
lade. Baseballs, bats, basketballs,, }
nd soccer balls, boxing gloves, and
?* At?/v onnnl i
Ciier equipujcui mc
smpany, in part, from a government j
ppropriation. i
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Boys' and girls' clubs in Northern ,
nd Western states pledged for war
erviee in gardening, canning, poultry .
Eiising, and other emergency enterrises
have more than SOO.OOO memers.
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A fireproof solution for treating air- (
lane fabrics is a thing which may be
ealized in the near future, expedients
in a private plant having alpady
developed a comparatively sue- ,
essful solution.
The manuraciure auu cuuaumpuvn
f pastry regarded as a luxury in
'ranee has been entirely suppressed, (
xeept on Sundays and holidays.
Government barges have been placed
n service on the upper Mississippi,
nd through government assistance a
iew fleet is lo be built for this servce.
Sugar is being moved by barge
rom Louisiana plantations to New Or- ,
eans.
The winter of 191G-17 was the most
lisastrous the range stockmen of the
.Vest have ever known. The lamb
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rrop for f.ie entire West was 10 to -u
>rr v^:i below the average, and the
?alf crop was considerably below normal.
SECMU (i:tiLiiS
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HAS ARMY OF SUBSTANTIAL SIZE
NOW IN FRANCE READY
TO FIGHT.
1,500,000 MtN! 1ER ftRfflo
Vnswers Critics of War Departme.it
and Declares Such an Army Never
Was Raised, Equipped and Trained
So Quickly.
Washington.?Every phase of the
var department's preparations for
>attle against Germany was outlined
tnd defended by Secretary Baker beore
the senate military committee,
-le answered those who have critiised
the department during the comnittee's
investigation with the asser
ion that no such army as that now
inder the American flag ever had been
aised, equipped or trained so quickv,
and that never before had such
>rovision been made for the comfort
ind health of an army.
The secretary read an exhaustive
>repared statement when he took the
itand and was not interrupted until
t was concluded. Then questions bejan
to fly from every side of the comnittee
table, launching a cross-examnaticn
that was not concluded at adournment.
Chairman Chamberlain and other
'ommitteemen wanted to know paricularly
about delays in furnishing
nachine guns and rifles, and much
ittention was devoted to the army's
upply purchasing system. Mr. Baker
idmitted that there had been some
nistaVes and delays, but declared that
ill fighting men in France were ade[uately
equipped and armed and that
ill/sent over would be. He took full
esponsibility for delay in approving
i machine gun holding that the
ralue of the Browning gun now devel>ped
was worth it. He also said the
uper.or weapon obtained by having
he British Enfield rifle recha^bered
'or American ammunition compensated
for the delay there.
More than 1,500,000 AmericansNare
iow under arms, Secretary Baker
aid, and an army of substantial size
Llready is in France reidy for active
lervice.
Members of the committee were
rank in their disanproval of the secret
purchasing system of the department.
They did not shake Mr. Biter's
support of it, however..
WOMAN SUFFRAGE
BARELY WINS IN HOUSE
Washingtn.?Woman suffrage by
federal constitutional amendment won
In the house with exactly the required
aumber of affirmative votes.
While member1? in their seats and
:hrongs in the galleries waited with
2ager interest, the house adopted by
i vote of 274 to 136, a resolution proriding
for submission to the states of
;he so-called Susan B. Anthopy amendnent
for enfranchisement of women.
Eut for the promise of Speaker
Ulark to cast his vote from the chair
!or the resolution if it was needed, the
change of a single vote to the opposition
would have meant defeat. Republican
Leader Mann, who came
trom a Baltimore hospital where he
las been under treatment ever since
congress convened, and Representa:ive
Sims of Tennessee, just out of a
sick bed and hardly able to walk to
lis seat, brought the votes that settled
the issue. :
Advocates of the amendment had
been supremely confident of the result
in the house after President Wilson
advised the members who called
upon him last night to support. They
vere so confident that the close vote
was received with amazement, and
some of the opponents were almost as
much surprised.
Announcement of the vote was
greeted with wild applause and cheering.
Women in the galleries literally
fell upon each others' necks, kissing
md embracing, and shouting, "Glory
Glory, Hallelujah!"
YANKEES AND BRAVES TO
PLAY 10 SOUTHERN CITIES
New York.?The New York Ameri
can league toam will piay m ju souiusrn
cities with the Boston Xationrrs
and three games with the Brooklyn
Nationals in Brooklyn during its twining
season, it v. as announced here.
The games wili start April 1 with Boston
at 2Lacon. Ga.. and subsequent
games at Dublin, Ga.', Augusta. Ga.,
Orangeburg, S. C., Columbia, Greenville.
Spartanburg, Charlotte, N. C.,
Greensboro and ePtersburg. Va.
Coal Famines at End.
Washington.?The railroad situation
has improved under government operation
sufficiently to guarantee that
there will be no further coal famine in
any part of the country this winte*.
Director General McAdoo was informed
by A. H. Smith, assistant in charge
of transportation on eastern lines. Local
shortages will be inevitable uQd#?r
existing condition, Mr. Smith said, but
indications arc that ro important in
dustnes vrm oe nwu w sum. u-vn
because of lack of fuel.
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OUT MIDDLEMEN
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Mrs. Georgia June Pratt, well-known
society woman of Chicago and Benton
Harbor, Mich., is on the eve of organizing
an anti-middle-man association
as a result of hor gardening expert
ii? TTiii* f"irni inct
t'lU'i; in* 1IU51 11V 1 ?< j?.-*
outside of Bnnton Harbor, produced
some of the finest com to bo seen anywhere,
corn which her friends were
buying at 40 cents a dozen. Commission
merchants offered her seven cents
a dozen for lier product. She brought
her story to the National Emergency
Food Garden Commission in Washington
and. was referred to Mr. Hoover to
the answer. If he hasn't it she is detr-rmir'od
to set satisfaction herself.
OLD MILL AGAIN IN USE
Only Water Mill Now in Operation in
Country Grinds Out Wheat
Flour.
JeffersonviPe, Ind. ? Whole wheat
flour is bein? manufactured at a mill
in Clarke county which is 100 years
old, and is said to be the only water
mill now in operation in the country.
The mill, which is three miles from .
- * - ?A ? s ? 1-^ 4-V? a HTimnnl i
Ufiariestown, is miuwu us mc iuuuu
mill. It is so called because at a point!
in Fourteen Mile creek a tunnel has j
been cut through solid rock, 94 feet;
below the summit of the hill it pene- j
trates and the mill race is fed through!
this tunnel, five feet wide and six feet
high, to the overshot water wheel
erected in the mill below.
The mill is of frame, 50 by 85 feet
in size, and the wheel has a diameter
of 20 feet, though it is said there is
room for ^ne of 26 feet. The tunnel
is 300 feet long. It was built from
1814 to 1S17 by John Work, a Clarke
county pioneer and mechanical genius,
who with gunpowder and his rude bor
ing tools, out two tunnels, one from
each end, that met exactly in the cen- '
ter, the work costing him, it is recorded,
$,?>,000. The mill has run practically
ever since, and the grinding is
done by big stone buhrs.
CAUSE THIRD OF DEATHS
Heart Disease, Tuberculosis and Pneumonia
Are Most Fatal, According '
to Statistics. ,
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wasnington.?x\ eany a imru <jjl a
million deaths reported to the United
States during 1916 were caused by
heart disease, tuberculosis and pneumoL.a.
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Figures made public by the census
bureau, predicted on vital statistics regarding
70 per cent of the country's
population, show the deaths caused by
heart disease numbered 114,171, tuberculosis,
101,396. and pneumonia, 98,834.
Accidental deaths numbering 60,071
are ascribed chiefly to railroad and au
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tomoone acciuems. xuere ?cie
suicides last year. I
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^Reasons! b I
Why you should use , J
Cardui, the woman's (
tonic, for your troubles, L ^ !
k have been shown in |jfo^ j
thousands of letters from
actual users of this medi- 1 ^ j
fcjv cine, who speak from ,
personal experience. If pft 1
the results obtained by L ^ j
k other women for so many .
?fc years have been so uni- 1
^ formly good, why not L 1
^ give Cardui a trial? ^ ]
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TM rh^ri,Q Trr'j1
T^j i si J wu. J 5 'lu.b
?. ^ Mrs. Mary J. Ir\ J*i. c
Cullen, Va., writes: F?| 2
t x: "About 11 years a^o, I kj^ i
r,j su.'i'cred untold misery Pik j\
cii \vi'>h female trouble, bear- I ^3 l
? 1' ir/j-down pains, heed- ^
S&I cchc, numbness ... I >0 ^
^ '*4 would go for three weelis k, t
Q''\5j almost bent double ... ' \
%i I "y husband went to Dr. ]
k . ?j for Cardui . . . gk t
*v^ A'.'.zt taking about two
K 1 t3 I beran going ^ C
V.^3 around and when I took
v.Vv| three bo"!:g I could do jPv/^
'. : J aii r:;-work." E-SO ,
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L XE'.VBKUilY MAN'S EXPERIENCE T
Y
C n you clouu tlie evidence of this h
sevoj.ry citizen? j(
Vt.'ii can verify Newberry endorse-.
nert. s:
I eod this: ?
H. F. Addy. blacksmith, 120S Cald- ^
ell Si.. NewLerry, says: "A hard case p
if t'.te ?rip left my kidneys in frightul
shape. I had severe r.ain across
ay loins an.l was laid up for two
aonths. I coiudn't do a stroke of work. ^
ly kidneys were weak and the kid- "
ey scretion were scantp and caused 1
burning sensation in passage, me
erretions also contained sediment
nd 1 had dizzy spells and headache3# *
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isk ' </;
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counesy iu um.
When a person
by mistake you do nc
ishly. On the contn
acknowledgment of
to lighten his embar
erf or.
Sometimes you
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and you una tnat yoi
to the telephone by n
It is well at such
the same courtesy tha
have extended to you
uation reversed and
tionally become a tel<
When you telep]
SOUTHERN BELL TE
AND TELEGRAPH (
Fish anc
cuiu r
Ferti.
Labor will be scarce this ve;
change and that makes it nece
heavily so you can make full c
?nlti"varoH F-arm nroducts Vi
v U 11i Uav/Ui ... r ~ year,
prices that wiil justify ]
and while Potash is high it wi
You want good crops while pr
have been made without Potai
needing it and one per cent of
^n red tend.
Potash is a medicine; it war
the plants healthy and strong
and strong it will grow and bl<
ohnr.rlant nrons. There
I i C4 V C U k/MAi ^ tween
a healthy plant and a si
tween a healthy pig and a sick
returns are concened.
Potash keeps your crops hea'
he only ones that pay. Keej
he prices are good. Make ?o
vorth something. Strike whi
We have the Fotash and dor
v?n Pic'h Rlood Fertilizer.
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md Blood and Potash gnods y
n fertilizer. If you don't mat
lot be the fault of the fertili
)etter. And now, finally, wh<
tnd prices for farm products a
ilizer?make all you possibly (
rate. Fish and Blood and Pot
ution of your farming trouble*
?ish and Blood and Potash ?
:ome to see us. You know wl
Anderson Phospli
W. F. FARMEF
he first box of Doan's Kilney P'wM
olpetl n"?e nni afte" I ha1 taken six^B :
oxes, all signs or kidney trouble had ^B
?*t and I was cured.'' * j
Price 60c, at all dealers. Don't M
ir.ipiy ask for a kidney remeiy?get^^B
ioan's Kidney Pills?the same thaM
Ir. Addy hal. Fo^ter-Milburn Cc^B
'roi s., Euffalo, N. Y. :|| x
On and after Janizary 1st, ISIS, al^fl
ersons sonanijr or bringing papers lor
ecord will please let the recording fees
ccompany the same.
Respectfully,
J NO. C. GOGGANS,
2-21 -tf "" Clerk ?f Court.
)idden Callers
enters your office
?t treat him churliry,
your courteous jd
his anolo^v helDS Jm
?r ov x
rassment over the flH
r telephone rings
1 have been called |
listake.
a time to practise
it you would like to
. were the same sit-*
you had uninteiisphone
intruder.
bone?smile! ^
LEPHONE fW%
COMPANY
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1 Rlnnnl
lizer l
ar unless there is a decided
jssary for you to fertilize
rops on the land you g*et
^ * ^ ^ ^ f Vvo
in Drjng ?uuu putco hud
/ou in fertilizing liberalljr
11 pay you to use some,
ices are good. These crops
sh and now gray Jands are
Potash will help the crops
ds off diseases and keeps J
and when a plant is healthy I
Dssom and fruit and you'll
is as much difference be- Jm
!cklv plant as there is be-m
:ly pig, so far as profit
If.hv and healthv crops aym
) the crops healthy whiie^B
oc! crops when crops are^B
!e the iron is hot. V
l't you forget it, we have ,
When you get the Fish J
ou get the best to be had 1
:e a crop with that it will ;;
izer?for there is nothing^?
3n labor is scarce and hign fprB
.1 C illiC UUii U O l/l IX U VJL1\- ^
:an on the land you cultSMj
:ash goods may be the so-^H
5 this year. We have tbe^B
ood*?ihey aie for sale?
lere to find us.
iate & Oil Co.
Secretary. * >^|