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I f ~ *4 * - . - ? i f i ???T??T-n-..ri?rwr?j?^ i g| _ , f i u.inr .r _ 11 ~ ~ i - ? ?1 - | VOLUME LY? NUMBER 50, NEWBERRY, S. C? FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 1918. TWICE A WEEK, $1.50 A YEAB 1 ~ ? K ? < ***?***** ? b * WHY I SHOriiI> PIT? ! || * W4F. SAVINGS STAMPS. ; (Written V?y 'Miss Floss-ie Spray.)* J Thp rsrol ^reat and insor-ant res-! Iscn "Why f Should Buy Tlirifr. Stamp-' J is that o ir country rrust win the war, j and to win the war it must have the , support o?. its people. This is the biggest job America has e*? er faced, or j i is ever likely to face. It is a job sr> hi? that none of us has ever walked 1 around and measured it. We are just ? beginning to understand what it V mean? to go to war in the modern sense and what it m3ans to prepare America for war. I must stand by. 1 my government and help to push for- ! ward the splendid plans which :t ha.; decided upon and which must be carried out before the victory our* Xo sacrifices of blood, of treasure, of comforts, have been too mvch for the L brave men ani women of those coun tries wh: fc for four ye?.rs have boms llj. the blunt of German hate, crime and cruelty. I know that they will go on 11 to the bitte- end. They will make* every sacrifice that is possible for them to make before they will quit. r- ? V. ~ ~ ? TrJ*l/\,5 Krr * Vl rTneir sons nave ueen mu^u ^ <-?*millions. Their homes are destroyed; they are either tearing the cruelty of the Germans or have given their lives for the just cause of liberty. Just a? there are three things I can do with a dollar, there are only thre* m, things I can do either for or against government. I can hoard my doi$P lar, I can spend it. or I can invest it. IB If I hoard my dollar it is a drag on J my community, just as an idle man is F a drag on a community. 'But there is something worse than a slacker, which is a traitor or the one that spends his or her money for unnecessary things. A. slacker is not doing anything actively to defeat the na__ i tion's purpose. But a dollar that I spend needlessly, a dollars that em ploys labor or consumes materia! which the government needs is an ! ^ ally of the enemy. When we buy ^ things that are unnecessary we are I post-ponma: the day that these ship^ i which we are to help win the war will be ready and manned; that they will begin to take j any great number of our men to the | I fields of France. And it is only when they are ready for service that we shall begin to hear from this struggle. So it is necessary for me to be either a slacker, a traitor or a patriotic citizen. The time has come when I must decide which I will do. The time has come, when T must either T*v. :inrf hftM lin IV. 7 1 UI U>. ~ -- government and democracy or T must face the dav when I shall see my fak ther and brothers killed in vain, and my country entriely overrun and ruinp ed. The crisis has come and I must f buy Thrift Stamps, since I am not able to buy Liberty bonds, or since I have not bought all the bonds that T chnnlri I should buy the stamns "because it is my part to help equip the army | and navy, and *0 protect the lives , of our lads in khaki This means f j must buy. buy and keep on buying L Thrift Stamps. Our government is ^ a democracy, and never '"before wa? it so clear that the responsibilities of citizenship come drectly to us and demand of us sacrifice: demand of uj? 1 that we co handle our personal affairs i that we not s?e* in the way of th* { govemmert, but t^e other hani that we might help. If it is asking too much of our soldiers to pledge their lives, ft certainly is not askrhs* too much of T.e +o T>>pdse to sav-3. Unless every man. woman and child of this country responds to the demands of war cheerfully, generously and proudly, the war must be prolonged ard ^e will fail and democmiicri -lia Sn far. our losses I CLKsV ^ . _ have been small indeed. 'But since I have been spared the horrors that France and Belgium have withstood for me. I should willingly give up my unnecessary luxuries. If I only -J m.-trt'h frhoca. .'',A11T? rrf consider uuw uiuv? ~ have borne for rne I not only would be willing to give up luxuries but r I would gladly give up some neces ????* Kv-Arv lava! American, ever: man. woman and child who is sincer in his or her patriotism, will sig: the pledge to save and to invest a much of the savings as possible ?i Thrift Stamps. 'Mere money means little. That i if I hoard it or fail to -lend it to m; government to help maintaain ou boys in "khaki. But it means :nuc] in defeating the kaiser, it must d by my willingness to do without tha the victory will be won. Yet my doing without not only wil help the uovernment, but it is goin( to teach thrift to me and to America We have needed this leson desperate ly. We have not stood up very we under that hardest test of al-i?pros perity. We have become careless we have become a spend-thrift people Our nation does not compare, ac. cording to population, with those o much poorer countries . Sweden ha five times as much saving per capit; as we have in this country. So ha Switzerland. But it is thought tha we shall see thirty million holder of these certificates. Can you real ize what it will mean for us. It wil mean that there will be thirty millioi better voters: better citizens. If w really teach the great lesson o thrift by these little stamps, if w build character anrl make women an' men that we shall be .proud of?thei I think we shall have gone a Ion; way towards recompensing ourselve for the whole money cost of the waif we do not accept the lesson?if w do not accept the personal responsi bilities?we are going to lose the war i. ~ U ~ , It is not won. it is going iu ue ? good many months before it is woi by a military decision. We must pre pare for it. We must help equip th army and navy- We must help ou allies, who have borne the blunt c the eOrman cruelty for four years and to do this we must save. I sa; we. because the lesson of thrift mus be taught to all. If we fail to lean this lesson, we iaii 10 wm tut? \*<u. I should buy Thrift Stamps becaus no matter how poor I am I am abl 1 to buy at least a five dollar one. might say "O, I can help some othe way." But I must not say this, al though I know there are other way I can help if I am a<ble to give fift; dollars or more. The poorest laborer of my country can <jive at least 2 cents a week for thrift stamp where we could not meet the pay ments of Liberty bonds. And evej if we could buy Liberty bonds ther is the fifteen or twenty years whicl we must wait before the governmen pays us back. Whereas, if I shouli invest this in Thrift Stamps I woul; only ibe compelled to wait five year or until 1923. By buying Thrif Stamps I can help my government "rv.ntvin). t qtyi tl-ia riphost r?r tho T>OOr VtllClUtPl I ?I11 ? - K est citizen of the United States. Then I should buy Thrift Stamp because I am only lending it to m; government, which portects me ii every way. I owe it as a free gif Yet the government is only askinj me to lend it, and not only do the; pay my money back but they also pa' me interest just as banks would dc It is the least I can do to stand be hind the boys in the trenches. Ther is not the slightest reason why should not buy. We send our ibroth ers to the f,-ont. Do we not wan them equipped? Do we not want a many as possible to return? Do w not want to give them all the pro tection that complete equipment cai give? Well, then we must not tamp er with t?ie equipment or me army but must buy Thrift Stamps and heir We could not say that we are no awake (because we are awake. W know there is a war, but the thin; is so bi? we do not comprehend it Just as we do not know or understan' a billion dollars, we are asleep, si far as we understand how o-iganti the task Ls . I want to appeal to you and to a] Americans. Never, during: the pro gress of this war let us forget th high and holy mission with which w * ' 1 A X T_ i entered the war, 110 matter wnat tn cost, no matter what the temptaion. ! Let v.* bring out of this war til ; ! * ** ?***? ? ? * War Saving. : Meeting Su noon at 5 C > Court Horn * I -1 - L - ine same tw 11 l\be a meeting \ and at Whiti Snpnhp.rs thai fland entertain l\ vided at ail mi s! f I cim i r.-rraa 'A vfv H-^v $ v J-v <$*><$ v ? > "i - j , i :? i1 J ?> 4 ;i| June 14 to II , V L' ?! " ? JL i i 11 j ^ "Buy ; r 1 ings Si f & ' | "Sign ; 1 I Pledge e!| o i > r i *t* r I ssp "Lend 'r | the Ca 11 f Buy H s 1 t - t e II t _____ a IG "Over t VVTe < A .1 I With Arthur Hir ? 8 /\i^ri7\ i I Thursday Nig Friday, June Saturday Moi I Prices: 2? Don't IV ? i ^,ypiN^iwvmffy<,gMrr.ifti my am 'irgnnr JUNE r% Cf/v#vi rv TUIn cc 3 iJlUffip 1TJ. uoo nday Aftero'clock at the A Isn at ' A?>W WW ?ur there will at Prosperity nere at 8:30. L will instruct will be pro:letings. f y}?<$>V . *1* i I* V ^ v| -*? >/ igs Weeks | i hisno 2jR I <Z*J7 B toss W <?> 4 4> * 4> I A 4// fAe War Sav- '4 r V Lamps You'Can!" 'i 4 I the War Savings | ? <$> 1" - * ' 4 I I lour Maney to J use of Victory? J r c c /? ! <J? s; I I I , \o liolVm" AAV A Guy Empey nself - ! vvAvv/?m I [ht, June 20. 21. Matinee & Niffhi. 'ning, June 22. >c and 50c m ^TT^TS MISS I 111? 14th TO * ?* ****? ?' *? *?*-** *?##**** , * * WHY I SHOULD BUY * j * WAR SAVINGS STAMPS. I * *** * ? ******** (Written by Thomas Hubert Watson) All over the country real patriots are buying war savings stamps, yetthere are many who still ask the ' question, why should I buy war, savings stamps. Instead of asking f this question they should be saying j I should buy and I will buy war savings stamps because it is my | duty. My duty to whom? First, to ray j country. Although my country has asked me to buy Liberty bonds and | I have bought, although it has asked | me to give my brother or son and I I have given, still in the same cause i it asks me to "buy War Savings J Stamps and T should buy them. My country is in a time of great pern and in a time when everything counts no matter how small, and if it sees I lit f> ask me to buy war savings ! stamps, then T. as a loyal citizen, i | must buy them. It is a good saying ; that a chain is as good as its weaki est link and since our government ! has made war savings stamps a link ; in its war chain, then I should do I my best to make this link as strong j as possible. Then too, I ^hould think j of the call to buy war avings stamps. If my country called me to fio-ht and I I was able to do so, would I refuse9 i So. for what wo did I be then? A | slacker, the most abhorred person in 'i Aineriia t d-y. Yet in the true sens-i I of the word, I am just as much a [slacker if I refuse to buy war sav1 r no t om if t rpfuse to i; ings sia;ui;o i ????. - ? J | Again there is mv duty to our - troops. I should be worse than a ,[ murderer if I should not do my par* ;j to back up the men. my-fellow citizens I who have offered their lives to pro| tect their country and me. This war , will depend largely on the equipment of the two armies. It would be mere ; 'butchery to send our brave soldiers out to fight without the necessary . equipment. This equipment take.> ' great sums of money, and it is up to ' the citizens of the Uuitfted States t^ I supply this money, and I, as a citizen . must do my share. Equipment take^ | not only money, hut also material. ; If I keep wasting materials which II are needed for the equipment of our J army it will soon be impossible to ! equip* them. Therefore I should do 11 without every unnecessary thing and with the money saved buy war sav. , ings stamps. In this way I would b* serving a double purpose For when I ibought war savings stamps, it would | mean not only money given but also J AnntVior crroaf factor materieli savcu. in this war is the spirit of the soldiers. And we learn from those who have had experience at the front that nothing renews the spirit of the soldiers in the trenches so much as to hear that we are backing them up to the last dollar and to the last man. War savings stamps present a eoua ' chance for everybody to show where he stands. And in order that the report of the purchase of war savings stamps nry cheer our boys I must do my bit by 'buying war savings stamps. Still another duty is my I duty to my state. Already our state has been numbered among those who i, have failed to respond heartily to the call to buy war savings stamps. Tf f hold my state at al! dear. I should j help to lift her up and restore her I to her place of honor. i ' Aside from these duties, 'here arc personal gains, numerous and great, which call me to buy war savings t Tff 7 l-? f A V? 111 i SWIHIIS, : 1 i wi-u i" u? r must save, for according to fames 7. Hill. "The test of success is the ability to save." War savings stamps present an easy method for saving, for no matter what amount of money i j flag cf our country as untarnished as | it goes in. sanctified and consecrated I to the establishment of Liberty for i all men who dwell on the face of the I earth. And let us deny ourselves oi the unnecessary luxuries that we 7-t -./..rA^nrvijitif O 5 va !Mlr ? may iei *jui ,'j support:' i JUNE 28th tt *********** , NEWBERRY'S APPORTIONMENT W. S. S. IS $340,000 Newberry's apportionment for the purchase of War Savings Stamps is $340,000 and it has been apportioned among the townships as follows: I Township No. 1 $160,000 Township Xo. 2 12,000 Township <Xo. 3 6,000 Township Xo. 4 30,000 ToVnship Xo. 5 12,000 Township Xo 15,000 ! Township 'Xo. 7 22,000 Township Xo. 8 8,000 Township Xo. 9 50,000 Township Xo. 10 10,000 Townshiw Xo. 11 15,000 I Death of Mr. Richard Burton. Again has a happy home circle been ; broken and a loved member taken, | and the sorely bereaved ones hava j the loving sympathy of many friends. | Mr. Richard L. Burton, son of Mr. ! James A. Burton of Newberry, died ' on Tuesday morning at 4 o'clock at the Postgraduate hospital in New York, where he was carried for sur i giuai u eauiieui IUI uiuin luuiui uvj ! months ago. His father and sister. Miss Bess Burton, went with him to the hospital, his sister remaining with him. his father coming home but returning to New York last Friday. The body arrived here Thursday morniino- on the J:44 C., N. & L. trail and was carried to Mr. Burton's residence to await burial. The funeral service was held at the house Thurs/4 m* o ff A??ri AAr? o ^ aVIa^L' Drl ua> aitci ul\SISU ciL u \j vivv^tv, ^yiiuuvuuu by the Rev. E. iV. Bab'o. The following were the pallbearers: Active? Walter B. Wallace, Jno. A. Peterson, Thos. K. Johnson, W. B. Thornton, y~* nMrrte!'. rr-bsr* Pool. Herman ; Wright. John Robertson. Honorary? H. B. Wells, W. J. Switten^erg. J. J. Longford, ]no. B. Mayes, Taz Senn, ; Robert IM. Lominack, J. L. Bussy. i Richard Burton was a young unmarried man. not quite 28 years old. He was a very active member of the i community, ore of the leaders in the fire' company, to which he gave much attention and in which he tcok great "lmerest, as wen as in uuiei ways ; working for the progress of the com! munitv. He had a very large circie J of friends who will miss him from I the busy life of Newberry as lie wa? ; always ready to do his part and could 1 be depended on in any emergency. ! The heart of his home town went ; w;th him when he was carried to the i us-*r*-r\i ,KTT Viio fatlipr and sister and his faithful nhysician. Dr. f. K. Gilder, and while he was lingering there between life and death the sympathy of the entire community never wavered in its affectionate anxiety. Besides a father the deceased is survived 'by four sisters?Mrs.C. A. Renneker of Orangeburg r .d Misses Bess. Margaret and Gocde Burton of Newberry?and by one brotuer, .Tas. A. Burton. .Jr.v now wun me aiuchmu Expeditionary Forces in France, and also bv other near and dear relatives.. There will he a meeting of the Kind's. Daughters ?t the A. R. P. church Friday afternoon at 6 o'clock. you have, from 2*c to $1,000, you can invest in war savings stamps. Again I it doe* away with the reply that I am not able to buy, for I would 02 ashamed to admit th^t I was not ab'e to buy a 2">e thrift star. p. Also if ! thought that r was hnrd pushed and should not be asiked to buy war savings stamps r should also think of the fart that I could be much harder nitsbed if old Kaiser Bill got a chance ta rir> thp mishin<r. Then too besides beinsr tn'icrht a lesso-i of thrift, T v.*o:ilrt receive interest on my money at the rate of four per cent compounded quarterly. Then too. I have the satisfaction of knowing that I can sref my money with the interest at any time I need it. Whereas if it [were tied up in some other 'business this would not be always possible. Then too, T often catch myself saying, ! Gee' how I wish I could get a chance to lick the kaiser." But no- * I think I will -ake my spite out in riV-fting war savings stamps.