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^EusisoFWA SAYS WOOL Message From Prei & United States Gathe That Year's Achek A /< -i-r?v lA / c## n Washington, Jan. 31?In a message to the nation's farmers delivered today to ?n agricultural ccnfe:cnte at Urbana, 111., President Wilson said he thought statesmen on bcth sides of the water realized that the culminating I crisi3 of the war had come and this year's achievements would decide it. The message, which the President KW attacked by a cold several days ago, m B attacped fry a cold severa days ago, J$|B| delivered by President James of HHP tke University of Illinois. Recounting the aggression? of Germany, the W President said: I "We are fighting therefore as truly I for th? liberty and self government " " ** * * ' ? - * ^ V* ? WA M ft? oI tb# United states as u t^c roi vi nr own revolution had to be fought over again; and every man in every business in the United States must | know by this time that nig wnoie iuI ture fortune lies in the balance. I "Our national life and our wfcolo future development will pass under | the sinister influences of foreign con. Lr trol if we do not win. We must win, ^ therefore and we shall win. "I need not ask to pledge your live^ and fortunes with those of the rest of the nation tc the accomplishment of this great end." The President recalled that farmers fired the first shot at Lexington that set aflame the American Revolution for liberty and expressed the hope and belief that American farmers now will ^ willingly and conspicuously stand by ? to win the war. He said the farmers Fdrd not want themselves exempted from military service as a class but that the attention of the war department was centered upon the task of interfering with farm labor as litle as possible and he believed that in the nest draft the farmer* would find their labor much less seriously drawn upon than in the first. 3fust Be Sacrifice. The president's message said in part: <4I need not tell you, for I am sure you realize as keenly as I do, that we are a nation in the presence or a great task which demands supreme sacrifice and endeavor of every one of u?. "We fan give everything that Is needed with the greater willingness, and 9ven satisfaction, because the object of the war in which we are en*a.s:ed ia the greatest that free n n if?o ? ? - _ have ever undertaken. It is to prevent tha Mfe of the world from being determined and the fortunes of men everywhere affected by small g-roups f military masters who seek their own interest and the selfish dominion throughout the world of govern wients thev unerT<hly for the mement control. You will not meed to b? convinced that it was necees&ry for us as a free people to take the part in tfcis war The ruler* of Germany had sought to exercise their power in such a way as to shut off our economic life so far as our intsrcouse witii SuTope was concerned, and to confine our people within the Western hemisphere while they accomplished purposes which would have permanen. xly impaired and impended every process of our national life and have put the fortunes of America at the mercy of the imperial government of Ger many. This was no threat. It had become a reality. Their hand oi violence had been laid upon our own people and our own property in flagrant violation not only of justice hut f well recognized and long standing convenants of international law and treaty. W# are fighting, therefore, a& truly for t^e liberty and selfgovernment of the United States as the war of our people revolution "kad to be fought over again; and very man in every bueinets in the Wnlted States mutt know by this time that his whole future fortune lies in Ibe balance. Our national life and our whole economic development will l>ass under the sinister influences oi foreign control if we do not win. We biust "win. therefore, and ve shall win. I need not ask you to pledge your lives and fortunes with those of the rest f the nation to the accomplishment f that great end. "You will realize, as 1 think statesmen on both sides of the water realize, that the culminating crisis of the struggle ha? come and that the achievements of this year on the one side or the other must determine the issue. It has turned out that the forces that fight for freedom depend upon w.s in an extraordinary and unexpected degree for the sustenance, for the supply of the materials >by which men *re to live and to fight, and it xvliJ ;je our glory when the war is over that we have suppl ed those 1* and supplied th?*j pi1* "t will cc all the ' . .. .? t R HAS COME 'i mow WILSON\ sident to Farmers of 1 red in Illinois Predicts ! '.vementi Will Decide ?orld Freecom. i ( , in supplying them we have made ur.r I ^ , | supreme effort an^ sacrifice. I "In the field of agriculture we hare l' v i agencies and instrumentalities, for- * g ' tunately, such as no other government in the world can show. The depart- *" * - - * - .. ? rtltr t nu ^ ment 01 agriculture is uiiuuuucCi? | greatest practical and scientific agri-!4' cultural orginazation in the world. n The banking legislation of the last two or three years has given the s' farmers access to the great lsndable j~" capital of the country Bath by I direct purchase of nitrates and by the i j establishment of plants to produce ni- . - - .. i j trates the government is doing its uc- i I most to assist in the problem of fer- i i' tHization. The department of agicul- j I ture and other agencies are actively j assisting the farmers to locate, safe- j i guard, and secure at cost an adequate supply of sound seed. The departmenr ; | has $2,500.00 available for this pur- j ose now and has asked the congress : for $6,000,000 more. j Problem of Labor, ! . ! ' TVio lahnr Tirnhlpm is one of srrcat ; 1 x""~ "" I difficulty and some of the best agencies of the nation are addressing them- j selves to the task of solving it, sd j far as it is possible to solve it j "Let me say that the stimulation of I the agencies I have enumerated ha> j been responded to by the farmers in .splendid fashion j Last isspring ! ! their planting exceeded by 12,000,000 brtroat rjntir?er of anv nre 1 ci s_ 1 CO xa* 53 vot "????(j i vions year, and the yields from the j crcps were record breaking yields. In r-j the fall of 1917 a wheat acerage of 42,170,000 were planted, which was 1,000,- p. 000 larger than for any preceding a] year. 3,000,000 greater than the next ^ largest, and 7,000,000 greater than the u preceding five years average. 1 ^ j "But I ought to say to you that it , is not only necessary that these Q, achievements should be repeated, but j j that they should be exceeded w 1 "I will not appeal to you to continue k. | and renew and increase your efforts, j ej [ I do not believe that it is necessary to ' c< do so. I believe that you will do iI ty without any word or appeal from me, j * " ' 11 > because you understand as wen as ! i ja do the needs and opportunities of this w great hour when the fortunes of man - 1 ^ kind everywhere seem about to be de j ^ termined and when America has the ; tj. greatest opportunity she has ever had , Q, to make good her own freedom and in 1 making it good to lend a helping hand j . to men struggling for their freedom j everywhere. You remember that it! ^ was farmers from whom came the ! oj 1 - A T fVjot <Jof . ! first snots zll licaiugn/u, luul vw . aflame the revolution that made Arner-1 s] ica free. I hope and believe that the farmers of America will willingly and 1 p conspicuously stand by to win this war also. The toil, the intelligence, 1 the energy, the foresight, and the self J S( sacrifice, and devotion or iae iarmw? G; of America will, I believe, bring to ! a triumphant conclusion this great , . last war for the emancipation of men j ti < from the control of arbitrary govern-1 u ment and the selfishness of class [ i ? ! legislation and control, and then when ; e; ' the end has come, we may look eacn ! i ? * I other in the face and be s;lad that we ! ~, ! i " j are Americans and have had the privi- ; s1 ! lege to play such a part. 'JSfc. j ^ The Cool Tliioyes. ! a S j ir I If anp set of scoundrel? ever de- j ^ served prosecution certainly the cial ; b barons merit it. When men become ' ^ so calloused hat they can "corner'' a stand that* the wages of coal miners have been increased some, but eer tainly not in porportion to the in- p Vi crease in the price demanded for coal 6' there is no punishment that ig too severe to be Inflicted upon them. The 2i idea of raising the price of coal from 90 cents a ton to $3.00 on the ground that it costs more to mine it 'is pre0 - 1 -fi al A a T3FAT*0 posierous. l-aese uuai udiuo - wv, bought up by these rich men at ridiculously low prices, and it is i doubtful if the coal itself cost them a ! ^ about fortp cents a ton. IWte under- j ^ | nenny a ton. The only cost is the j mining, and cur recollection is that a ! 0 commodity and cause humanity to ^ <=ufler as has the coal trust this season, u at the mines. If this great and glor- 13 ions (?) Democratic government de- ^ sires to do something that will benefit | ? all the people it will over the coal jn fields and then proceed to put ea~.h i 1 ]( and every mem-ner of the coal combine?bcth operator and middle ^ ^ an?in some federal prison for life. p The scoundrels ncedto be put on a ; r bread and water diet, too. In fact, I 0 there is no punishment that would the ! ^ 1 f' crime.?Gaffnev Ledger I tl ! d The Herald ancJ Xoivq One Yn?~ ^rr ; i : 1 i Only 51.51). ; - Vit i i' '? HAiO vYi STICK Dean of Newberry Ty perience Beginnim us Wert (By H, M Barker) j t I-orn in Hickory, X. C., on May 23, 84.">, I found myself working in a I riming office in Newberry fourteen r ears later. Almost continuously i ince that time?the exc-eptinon bing t le four years I followed the Stars c j Rd Bars in the sixties, and snort , eriods I have followed the carpenter's i rade?I have worked as a printer in j rin<t:ng offices in Ne wherry. My i ? ervice with the Newberry news- j .1 I 11 1 i . I apers has covered a space of nearly j 0 fty-three years?more than half a v sntury. My first employment in a r rinting office was with John Blats r nd Burr Johns publishers of the v ewberry Sentinel, which was located f pstairs in a wooden building on the te of or near the site of the present 1 uildin? occupied by Blaustien. I went t n the Sentinel in the summer of 1S59. | worked there a few months, and then j r ent cn the Rising Sun, published c y Thcs. P. Slider and Thos. F. Gren*er, upstairs over where the Mower c Dmpany is now located. I worked t lere during the fall and winter oL c 559, and during a part of 1860. The i r itter part of the year 1860 I went io I ork on the Conservatist. published ^ y Silas johnsVone ?nd James D. } r ance, in Law Range. I worked on | f le Conservatist during the jemainder I f 1860, and during 1861 until n e I -nested in tb/; Confederate t r : ? :i: n:I served the Confederacy in Co. D., ?d. S. C. Battalion for the four years j t the war. j * Coming back to Newberry in the t pring of 1865, I went to work on the ^ ewherry erald published by Tho?. j1 . Greneker, on the corner where; * ' * !e Mower -company is now located, L ad continued on the Herald for c ' * jveral years. I then went to work J 9 n the "Progressive Age, published i * r Thos. P. Slider and R. H. Greneker, a le ji'ant being Jocated up-stairs on r ie site of where is now Leavell's ' ndertalting establishment. The Pro- '1 ressive A?;e had comparativelv short ?0 1 xistence. and I went to work on mc ; ewborry News, which was located 8 !.*or where is now Pelham's drug * ;ore. After I had worked on the News v vo years * Quit the printing business ! nd moved to Laurens. After engag. j ig in the carpenter's trade in Laurens I >r about thirty-two monuis, I came j ack to Newberry. By that time the ; ewberry Herald and the Newberry ( ews had consolidated. i iWfaen I came baek to Newberry I 1 ursued the carpenter's trade for a. * rhile and then went back to the print- I r's trade, on The Herald and News, ' hen owned by Thoe. F. Greneker, 1 nd later iby Anil and Honseal, and len by the present management. I i ave been on this paper practically 1 ver since. ^ I was with the Newberry Herald in * +Vi/% fira nnriiirrpd Thft ' r?UU, WilCU vvswv?**ww. ferald was then located over where ! tie Mower company now is. What j * 'as left o. the Herald plant was mov_ i 1 d into what was known as the Brown J * uilding in lower Main Street. The r ext issue and the next several issues, ^ ntii the plant could be replaced, 1 -ere printed on the old army rever- 11 ible press. Not a single issue was 1 lissefl. More than half a century is a good "1 3ng time. Looking back over that ( eriod. memories of the goodly com- 1 any of the knights of the stick and 1 ule crowd round about me. Most ' f those whom T knew in the younger ays of my life have passed to their inal reward. I trust they have fo^nd hat perfect rest which I believe they < e:erved. ! The yewv.'anar has kept pa'e with I ' o n*v;cr~- of f'n > > *?. r* 1 tTie : " .. i /. / i.s . . . , -c ':i Id I' ITH THE AND THE RULE I 'pe-Setters Gives Ex] Before Most of : Born 1 t he business of half a ccnturv ago As one of the employees of The leraiJ and .sows it ieuUius niiy wi no. on this the editor's quartoentennial .to wish for the editor and he o;d Herald and Ne ws long years if usefulness and prosperity. Friday, March S, 1912. The above was written by Mr. Bar;er at my request at the time of my ' :5th anniversary connection with The lerald and News and published in the ' s-sue of March 8, 1912. Mr. Barger j ontinued with me until his health De- I ame such that he could no longer fork. I am glad that I was able to eep him on the weekly pay roll up I ntil the Saturday before His deata j ven though the weekly payments ;ere not lar^e. I am sure they were ppreciated by him. I am reprinting : he article 'because I am sure it wiH ! e read with interest by many who! lay not now remember the article a> ublished at the time. Even in the short space cf six years lere are m-any changes in the town nd no doubt some of the places he mentions will not be recognized by lanv of the readers today. The store hen occupied by Blaustein is the j opeland Bros, corner. The Mower j orner is now J. W. Haltiwanger. Pelom's drug store is now the Newberry ;rug cumpauj. ! Hosea Earger was a faithful ani i oval workman. He was never a swift ut he was reliable and faithful.! rtiich is worth more than to be a ecord maker. You could always defend on him and what he had to do ; ras always done well and you could | eel satisfied that he would do it. He was with me from March 7, | 887, to the time of his death, with j he exception of a few months. He was sick for several months, but lot conHned to nis bed except for a j :ou,ple of weeks. He passed quietly out at about 5 j )'clock on Friday afternoon and we ; >uried his body at Rosemont Satur- ! lav afternoon at 5 o'clock. The fuiora] service was conducted bv the J P* F. Bibble and Edw. Fulen- j vider. Three or four of his old com- I ades of the Confederacy attended the ; uneral. I Peace to his ashes. I B. H. A. an S^RGDOL DRESSING CLASS. Mips Caroline Guignard, of Columns.. has been appointed instructor for he classes here and at Prosperity. The response to the call for workers n this department was all that could ?e asked?eighty women enrolled at hf meeting at Mayor Wright's. The ihurch societies that meet on nex* Monday have been asked to move up he hour in order that the ladies may ,ttend a conference with Miss Guigtard at 4 o'clock in the new court rouse, at which time all information lecessary will be <riven, hours for lasses arranged, etc. The Supplies Committee asks that is far as possible, the women of the j own will work on the surgical dress- I ngs, leaving the last shipment of voo! and pajamas for those members vho live too far out to take the five essons necessary for working in the ; oora. *x +V10, Pnstmaster ! AL LUC I cqucot vi. - ? 3-eneral the United States Civil Ser- | ace Commission has announced an jxamination to be held at Newberry, 5. G. oh Feburary 6 1913 for the position of postmaster at Prosperity, j 5. C. This offi-ce has annual compensation of $136*. To be eligible for this examination j ' ' - fV,Q ix applicant must oe a cmwu ui Jniied States, must actually reside prithin the dilivery of the office and lave so resided at the time the present vacancy occurred. , Applicants must have reached their ;wenty-first but not their sixty-fifth birthday on the date of the exaninaion. , , , Application Form 304 and Cull nformation concerning the requirements of the examination may fee ^ured from the postmastter at the * ny. f rTVTV) the Civil place 01 vauau^jf ui __ Service Commission, Washington, D. C. Applications should he properly ixecuted and filed with the Commission at Washington, D. C , in time to irrange for the examination of the lpplicant. "PTTMSTOff NOTICE. I will bo in the office of the auditor very Saturday during January for the Purpose of receiving applications for tensions. W. G. 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