The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, February 01, 1918, Page TWO, Image 2
IMPORTANT NEWS !
: THE WORLD OVER
IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF THI8
AND OTHER NATIONS FOR
SEVEN DAYS GIVEN
THE NEWS JjFJfHE SOUTH
What Is Taking Place In The Southland
Will Be Found In
Brief Paragraphs
Domestic.
From El Paso, Texas, coines. the
news that forty angered Mexicans had
crossed the Rio Grande in the southern
part of El Paso. Soldiers and policemen
armed with rifles were rushed
to the scene. After firing several hundred
shots the Mexicans retreated
across the river. A company of United
States troops on guard at the Santa
Fe street international bridged fired
at the retreating Mexicans, but it is
not known if any were hit.
A Virginia, Minn., dispatch says that
a squad of deputy sheriffs departed for
the north woods to co-operate with ?
detachment of the Fourth Minnesota
regiment in preventing a threatened
outbreak among timber workers. Rumblings
of disorder followed recent distribution
of I. W. W. literature printed
in Seattle through lumber camps be'tween
Virginia and the Canadian bor
der.
Division of the country's bituminous
coal fields into twenty districts as the
' first step toward instituting a zone
system of coal distribution is under
way by the fuel administration. The
boundaries for seven of the districts
already have been established and
Fuel Administrator Garfield has named
a representaive in each.
With the aid of the railroad administration,
the fuel administration will
soon define consuming districts, each
Via cimnHori from one of the Dro
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ducing districts.
No advance toward peace is seen
here in the speeches made in Berlin
and Vienna by the German chancellor
and Austrian foreign minister upon the
war aims of the central powers. Formal
comment was withheld until the
texts are put out by an authorized
German agency.
Rulings of the bureau of internal
revenue in connection with the war
tax upon admissions to baseball
games pla^e the payment of the tax
upon the attendant at the game, declares
the exemption clause in the law*
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applies oniv 10 employees ui uir umi
club, not even including concessionaries,
and permit an increase of admission
rates to "help defray the expenses
of the club."
A universal seven-hour day during
the period of the war, instead of present
spasmodic suspension of industries,
is suggested by Samuel Gompers,
president of the American Federation
of Labor.
Distribution in the mails of The Irish
World, Tht Gaeltic American and The
New York Freeman's Journal, three of
fho loaHinor TrieVi wcpI-Hps Psnmisine
the cause of Irish independence, have
been refused by postoffice authorities
at New York.
Government control of cotton with
a ban on export and setting of maximum
prices was urged in resolutions
adopted at the convention of The National
Association of Bedding Manufacturers
at Chicago.
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Washington.
There never has been a similar body
of men to lead as clean lives as the
American soldiers in France, General
Pershing said in a cablegram to Secretary
Baker in reply to inquireis as
to the truth of reports of immoderate
drinking among the men.
General Pershing informs American
mothers that they "may rest assured
that their sons are a credit to them
and to the nation and they may look
forward to the proud day when on the
battlefield these splendid men will
shed a new luster of American man
hood."
The freight embargo will probably
continue until milder weather permits
railroads to begin to move the great
quantity of general freight accumulated
during the period of winter storms,
sleet and snow.
To reduce railroad mileage in hauling
of coal some sort of a zone system
of coal distribution probably will be
put into operation. Plans for such an
arrangement have already been discussed.
Nearly one hundred men were entombed
by an explosion in the Allan
shaft of the Acadia Coal company's
collieries at Stellarton, N. S. Rescuers
returning to (he surface brought
out seven bodies.
Ronomination of Postmatser General
Burleson has been confirmed by ihe
senate, which was done within a few
minutes after the nomination was
taken up. There were no rumblings
of opposition.
Solicitor Lamar of the postoffice department
holds that the federal stat
ute exciuamg irum iue mans gums into
"dry" territory public&ions carrying
advertisements of intoxicating liquors
does not apply to advertisements
for the sale of liquors inserted
by the government.
C. S. Thompson, chairman of the
press committee of the American Defense
Society, in an informal discussion
at a New York City luncheon, declared
the society had been informed
that the United States had executed
fourteen spies since the beginning of
the war with Germany.
A Tokio, Japan, dispatch says: "Japan
holds herself responsible for the
maintenance of peace in this part of
the world and consequently, in the j
event of that peace being endangered !
to the inevitable detriment of our interests,
the government of Japan will i
not hesitate to take the proper measures."
Passengers aboard a trans-Pacific i
liner which arrived at this port from j
the Orient brought details of the cap-!
ture by Chinese troops of the Ivlan-j
churian city of Harhin. "The Chinese
commander," it is stated, "walked into
the office of the Bolsheviki com-!
mander and very promptly killed
him." Some fighting followed, and
at the close of hostilities the Chinese |
troops had driven the Bolsheviki sol-j
diers from the city.
In a dramatic three-hour speech to j
the senate Senator Chamberlain, the!
chairman of the military committee,
T?Ar?1{a/l +/-v Procidont Wilcnri'e statp
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ment that he had distorted the facts j
in charging that the government had
broken down in its war preparations.'
Jle declared the president had grossly
maligned mm, ana not oniy aeienueu
but emphatically reiterated his assertions
made in a recent address at New
York. He said.the president did not
know the truth, and that he did.
America's foreign trade surpassed
all records in 1917.. amounting to $9,178,000,000.
An unofficial embargo on all
freight except food, fuel and munitions
practically is in effect east of
the Mississippi and north of the Ohio
and Potomac rivers, as a result of Director
General McAdoo's authorized
embargo on three eastern trunk lines.
Although the restriction was applied
formally only to the Pennsylvania and
the Baltimore and Ohio east of Pittsburg
and the Philadelphia and Reading,
other railroads have accepted little
freight, particularly if it was destined
for eastward movement.
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European.
There has been small encouragement
for the German emperor and the central
powers in the proceedings of the
British Labor party. The leaders of
the party, representing 2,500,000 trade
unionists, all registered voters, show
a determination to take a strong line
in support .of the war as the only
means of obtaining a democratic peace.
Again the sinking of the British
rpe'.'chnr.t^en by mine or submarine
havo been held at a low point. Only
six vessels of 1,600 tons or over and
two unccr that tonnage were destroyer!
in the past week. Summary: Arrivals.
2.255: sailings. 2,242.
The notable feature in the world
war is the apparent resumption of
military operations on the western
front in France and Belgium.
From the North sea to the Swiss
frontier the lessening in the rigors of
winter has permitted the belligerents
again to send forth their men in center-.
prises which seemingly forecast the
intention to shortly resume fighting ac+
xt AvtonoiVolv
tivivjr ^ v. Aiviiox ?
GermanV, through Imperial Chancellor
Count von Hertling, and AustriaHungary,
through its foreign minister,
Count Czernin, have made reply to the
peace terms of the allies and the
United States as recently enunciated
by Lloyd George, the British prime
minister and President Wilson. Although
Count von Hertling and Count
Czernin affect to see the possibility
of coming into agreement with- th^ir
enemies on minor points, the concrete
tases essential to peace are declared
to be unacceptable.
The German chancellor says the fate
of Poland and the Balkans and the readjustment
of the Italian frontier lies
"Kith Austria, while the evacuation of
Russian territory concerns only Russia
and the central powers. Germany,
he added, considered that the integrity
of Turkey, and the safety of its
capital, were, closely connected with
the question of the Dardanelles, which
was of vital interest to Germany.
By the sinking of two steamers by
the enemy in the Mediterranean about
three weeks ago 718 lives were lost,
it is announced officially.
After weeks of vacillation, the Germans
havp at last made their demands
at the peace conference at Brest-Litovsk
and the Russians have declined
to accede to them. Courland in its
entirety and all of Russia's Baltic
provinces are to be retained by Germany,
according to General Hoffman,
in what is termed as Germany's last
proposal to the Russians, and the added
threat was given that if the Russians
failed to acquiesce in the de
mancis rurtner mroaas into tneir territory
would follow and the important
port of Reval, near the mouth of the
Gulf of Finland, would be occupied.
A Paris dispatch quotes Count Czernin.
the Austro-IIimgarian foreign minister,
as declaring in an address to the
delegates of parliament that "I Ivivo
no intention to demand from Russia
a single meter of territory or single
cent or indemnity."
The Austrian foreign minister has
invited President Wilson to use his
influence to induce the entente allies
to declare the conditions on which
they are willing to talk peace.
Lord Rhondda, food controller, has
taken drastic measures to deal with
the meat shortage. An official order
has been issued applying to all hotels,
restaurants, boarding houses and pu'
lie nlaces t.o'heein forthwith. It snec
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two meatless days for Great Britain.
While the bitter internal political
situation in Austria-Hungary seems to
have abated somewhat in intensity,
the latest indications are that beneath
the suiface fires of discontent
are xnerv-iy smoldei in=c tn;it at no
distant date again < '!: out in
a veritable conM^"
ALLIES 10 TRY I
AERIAL TANKS
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To Do Work Like That of Land (
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Battleships.
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Problem of Construction Still Far (
From Being Solved?Experience Has
Proved Necessity for Eiuilding Machines
That Are Able to Defend
Themselves?Influence on Morale ot
Troops Is Great.
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The construction of aerial tanks, or,
to u?e the technical term, armored air- t
planes, that will accompany the in- i
fantry in the air just as the tanks go >
forward on the ground, is being con- 1
sidered by the French aviation author- i
ities. The Germans have been using ?
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Uir|UUIir> "i. tm;> l,? m,ujiiu....s ?.
value of this aid to an attack by infan- c
try.
These machines, being necessarily of (
considerable weight, cannot fly very i
fast and are useless for scouting or (
fighting in the air with enemy planes, j
But the effect on the morale of troops
of airplanes flying over the heads of j
the foe, pouring into their ranks vol- \
leys from machine guns, was amply j
demonstrated in the battles in Flan- (
ders. when British and French observa- ]
tion and fighting planes abandoned
their legitimate functions and took \
part in the infantry attacks. Being of
the lightest construction and wholly
unprotected, they were easy marks for j
rifle and machine gun fire. ,
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Must Protect Airplanes. 1 \
To utilize to the utmost the airplane f
In connection with the infantry the i
protection of the crafl; by means of (
light armor is being considered. This <
principle may be also applied to other j
classes of planes. Today French tac- <
tical aviation possesses the best multi- 1
place machines. <
' The Breguets, the Samsone, the Cam- <
dron. R-H are of the greatest efficiency. 1
But experience has demonstrated that ]
artillery observation machines are nev- <
er safe from attacks of the enemy i
fighting planes, no matter how vigilant t
are the escadrilles, whose duty it is to c
defend them. This fact has made it (
evident that it is necessary to build 1
machines that are able to defend them- i
selves. s
The problem of construction is still -\
far from being solvrd. It is necessary
to have specialized planes for recon- ?
naissance, photography and artillery ;
regulation, and there must also be
planes for infantry liason and trench
attacks.
Requirements of Service. j
The first class must be able to fly j
high and fast; the second, that accom- l
pany the infantry, must crawl and go <
slowly. To crawl at a low altitude <
+v.qtt mnot T-iq ormnrfiil nthprtvisp theV s
11ICJ JLL1UOC UA*i*V* v-?, V ^ - w t
are quickly doomed to destruction. 1
Armored planes existed in 1914, and
even before the war, but little by little 1
they have disappeared. 1
On days of attack the French pilots <
are forced to fly for hours at le^s than *
800 feet from the enemy trenches, 1
filled with machine guns. For several i
months the Germaos have employed <
an airship of the Junker type, entirely 1
msidp of metnl. all of whose machinery.
motor and guns are protected by a
shell-proof armored covering. They i
are thus able in the very face of enemy i
infant: v to attack without much dan- ]
ger to themselves. It is to meet this i
emergency that the allies are now con- j
sidering the building of aerial tanks, j i
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HIGH PRICES IN GEBMARJY j |
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List Shows P.ia Increases Slncd
Beginning of War.
The Massachusetts woman's commit- ,
tee of the council of national defense j
Is in receipt of a price list now in ,
force in Germany which contains the j
following interesting quotations: (
Cotton socks for infants were 6
cents ner Dair. now 72 cents for same .
grade. \
Machine cotton was 4 cents per
spool, now 22 cents.
Ladies' woolen stockings were 06 j
cents, now $3.60 per pair for same
quality.
Cotton voile was 13 cents per yard,
now $2.SS for same quality.
Ladies' chemises were $1, now $1G '
for same quality.
Half-wool dress sroods wr^s 38 cents
per yard, now $5.76 for identical material.
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Such prices here would make American
women think that we have jone ^
luick ro Civil war'm'ices.
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CUnnTQ Dc*o \v, PAV'vii
jv) i O i kij UK ? < \
Followed Him Into His Den and Used
a Torch. I
TVH-h o ^Ofi.rwvnrwl hrntpn hpnr R <3 thp <
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trophy of his hunting expedition, W. E. ]
Figgins returned to his farm home
north of Belgrade, Colo., from the t
West Gallatin canyon. In killing tht> <
bear he had an experience that prob- ]
ably few sportsmen would care to <
duplicate. * I
Mr. Figgins followed the bear into i
his den about 100 feet underground, i
ol'lnrr ? tnrfh w.-ith him ^
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The bear started toward Mr. Figgins. i
and as It gave a big grunt it blew out j
tho torch. In the utter darkness of the
bear's <lo? Mr. Figgins fired his gun
and the animal. It r~ok i?vo
men besides himself wit!, nr !
Uie dead bear out of the d^3. ;
REHABiLITATINS
MAIMED SOLDIERS,
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Janada Is Making Skilled Men cf '
the Wounded.
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}nly 3,514 Out of 13,826 Who Have
Come Back Are Classed as Wounded?Men
Are Re-Educated to Fil! j
Positions Faying Higher Wages Than |
They Received Before Going Into
Army.
Out of 13,S26 soldiers tl:at have re-;
:urned to Canada from her overseas j
'orces, only 3,514 are classilied as? J
vounded in a report of the Canadian
nilitary hospitals commission. Tlie!
eport is especially interesting to
Americans because Canada's war probem
is in many ways similar to our |
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"i Ivor fltrA*' lirmvhf !:omp t""1- '
lor age. ">S0; tuberculosis. I'TO; insane, j
LR?; "other causes," 7,0iAJ. A total |
)f 9,134 of the 13,620 were sent to lios- j
utais or convalescent homes.
About half?7.418?are either unin-!
iured or only L'.A> per cent disabled.:
those disabled i'rom 20 to 50 per cent i
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lumber 2,923; disabled 01 to 73 per.
out total 1)27; 75 to 1U0 per cent, j
L,975. i
Only 5,233 were native Canadians;
f,41S were born in the British isles.
They Rehabilitate the Wounded.
In the Guelph Military Convalescent
lospital at Guelph, Out., the Canadian j
government has au almost id3al plant1
'Or the rehabilitation of wounded and !
;ick soldiers. This establishment was j
'ormerly a reformatory. It has a farm j
)f S30 acres, which is capable of great j
ievelopment, and has also a wooleu !
uill, machine shop, broom shop, tailor
>hop, woodwork shop, creamery, lime
din and equipment for many other in3
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. ollege adjoins this hospital, and its
:eaching staff will help in the work of
*e-educating the men. An institution
such as this may take a man who is
bounded and who has never been any;liing
but a day laborer and send him
)Ut well and trained to work at a trade
)r a profession?whatever he has the
>rains to learn. Our own government
s now building and commandeering j
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iiliiliur lLl^UlUUUilO 1U i \,inv,
bounded Americans.
One young man who has a severe
scalp wound was a farmer, teamster
md general laborer earning wa^vs
iveraging $G0 a month, lie has now
i commencing salary of $70 and is engaged
at a much more agreeable occupation.
Another was a lumberman
ind accustomed to earn $3.50 a day,
3ut on returning to the woods he took
1'harge of an engine at $4 a day. Another
man who formerly made $35 now
jets $05. Ali of these men were very
jadly wounded.
Private Henry Gerrish, who was a 1
:eamster when he enlisted, lost his en- j
:ire left afro. He studied hard in the j
convalescent hospital, passed the civil
:? ??.. ?-i, 1 rr/vt on nn. I
service ^.vaim uunvii, <inu ?.?A,
^ointment as a postmaster at $125 a
nonth. In additioti he persuaded one
jf the nurses in the convalescent hospital
to become his wife.
A Few ^More Examples.
A metal polisher who made $60 a
month took a course in commercial
svork and is now earning ?S7.50 a
uenth as a bookkeeper. A private,
>vho was a blacksmith's assistant, took
i course in oxyacetylene welding and
low makes SIM) a month. A general
aborer has become a wood carver and
~ o mnnth hv the Alaska.
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Bedding company.
"I always had a liking for drawing
and felt that if I ever had the chance
[ would take up mechanical drawing,"
svrote a wounded prisoner who had
3een a milk wagon driver for some
rears at $12 a week. "This opportunty
was afforded me at the Gray Nuns
Convalescent home at Montreal, where,
after six weeks, I am in a position to
accept an appointment with* an iuitial
salary of $75 a month."
Another man admits that he learned
aiore while in the hospital than he did
in 30 years of experience as a mechanic.
"The fact is," he writes, "that at the
outbreak of the war I was earning
about $3 a day at my trade. I am now
able to hold a job as foreman in a
uachine shop at more than twice uie j
salary f was getting before."
In this way Canada is making out of ;
;ier wounded skilled men to take the ;
nlace of those who are lost.
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TRIES TO LASSO BEAR j
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//est Virginia Man Has Thrilling Ex- 1
perience on Mountain.
James S. Ware had a thrilling ex- !
perience when he encountered a bear j
ind her cub on Cheat mountain, near
Elkins, W. Va., recently.
According to Ware, the bears climbed
1 tree, and, being unarmed, he secured '
;ome grapevine and followed, with the
ntention of lassoing them. The moth?r
bear climbed down over Ware "slobbering
in his face," he said, but makng
no attempt to attack him, and tied !
nto the woods, abandoning the cub.;
tVare hurried home and returned with
1 dog and gun. but both of the ani-:
rials had disappeared.
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Divorces Increase in England.
Stiiooiics show that divorces hfire
Increased iu England sixiee the war began.
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CARRY TOE MESSAGE.'
Do Your Bit in War ami Talk;
About !t.
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Save Wheat, Meat, Fats and Sugar,
and Ask Others if They Are
Doing Same.
Washington.?Fight the war with
food?and talk about it!
Do not hi do your light under a bushel
ii" you are helping win the war 1
against Germany by following the {
teachings of the United States food
administration.
Practice the doctrine of savin? the
wheat, the meat, the fats and the
sugar and ask others if they are doing
the same.
Tell thorn what you are doing and
how. Tell it in detail, by casual reference,
humorously, seriously, intimately,
or in public addresses. Tell
them directly or by insinuation, as may
be your method, that you think those
who are not fighting through the kitchen
are slackers.
Bring home to everyone within the
sound of your voice the fact that we
are as deeply involved In war as any
other nation and that we must furnish
food for our armies and our allies.
Tell them of the hungry children in
Europe who are growing daily more
thin and bloodless, losing all their
childish gayety and joy, because of
lack of food, added to horror and
shock.
Impress on your audience, be it great
or small, that if love or numaniiy win
not make them save food, the instinct
of self preservation should.
WE MUST HAVE FOOD TO WiN
THE WAR!
DOORS and SASH. Big sto ck on hand
Get our prices. Summer Eros, co; :
Dan>*
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WIRE FENCE-American wrapped
and Pittsburg electric we'd Car cach
just received Summer Brothers Company.
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