The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, August 20, 1918, Image 2
THE COUNTY CAMPAIGN
PROVES A FAILURE
The candidates for county offices
have not had any audiences at any
of their meetings when they were the
only drawing cards At Young's Grove
there was a pretty good attendance
on account of tne reunion or tne auii
family, and at Silverstreet there was
a fairly good attendance of some who
had been present at the children's day
- exercises, but at the other places there
were none to hear. 'At Pomaria and
Longshore we believe there was no
speaking at all. The audience and the
interest were absent. So at the Pomaria
meeting that was to be on Tuesday
it was decided to call off all the
campaign meetings except the one at
Little Mountain and the one at Mollohon
mill and the one at Whitmire.
It is well. We told "you so" at a
meeting of the executive committee
that it would be well to have no campaign
this year as the people did not
care to hear speeches, but the motion
was ruled out of order because of the
fact that the rules of the party are
mandatory as to a Transitu; a county
campaign. ?
Fact is it is too hot to be campaigning
any way, but besides that
there are no real great crowd moving
orators in this campa;gi party, and
there are no barbecues, and this is no
time for that sort of thing anyhow,
and it is well that the people gave
heir disapproval of a campaign by not
attending the meetings.
" i
T oHdv rwim Pamr> Jaokcnn.
JLIVVW& J. A vJUi " "t-JTT|T
Camp Jackson, S. C. j
Aug. 14, 1918. j
Dear Editor:
I have just finished reading a copy
of the dear old home paper "The Herald
and News," of course you know I
always am glad to have a letter from
Mrs. Ward and the hoys and the Heralr
and News is just like a letter from
home, oh, yes it is home to me and
will never be anything else for it has
"been for thirty long years.
Mr Aull I thought I would drop ia
a few words from the camp, I have
"been here nearly five weeks and like
it fine, although the weather is very
hot. but the camp has nothing to do
with it for I understand it has been
very hot in the northern part of the
country as well. I am employed in
the government post office here, we
are working from thirty-eight to forty
m?n on long shifts. It is our duty to
issue the mail out to the various regimental
officers. Our office is in a
very desirous location, being in the
circle of the fnain Y. M. C. A. audi
torium, tie Hostess House, . tne
Knights of Columbus Hall, the Camp
Library and the Christian Science
House and the Liberty Theatre, The
Y M. C. A. offers splendid attractions
for the boys, and they all seem to enjoy
them very much. On Monday
night I had the pleasure of seeing
some of the real live sports at No.
140. Some splendid-boxing and also
?ome good wrestling. Mr. McDonald
of Chicago is referee of all of the
sports.
Most of the boys here say it looks
like the war will be over before they
get a crack at Kaiser Bill, but they
are anxious to get thiers and do their
share when the time comes.
I have not had much time to get
around over the camp and look up the
sure depend on them being 100 per
UBO Avoirs 3M ;nq 's^oq XjjaqM0\:
cent true blue. Mr. Holland ISIigh has
been down to the camp twice since I
/vime down and he always comes ou?
S3 ^ '
to see me.
I have written my mother to send
me here paper as soon as she finishes
reading.
Hoping you and all of Newberry;
much success.
I am, yours truly,
Arthur C. Ward
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Grocer Had Nothing to Saft.
The grocer thought one day that he
would like a steak for his dinner as a
change from the bacon, so he sent his
little crirl across to the fcrutcher for one
pound of steak.
On receiving the steak, he thought i
he might satisfy his curiosity by weighing
it, and in so doing he found it to
be four ounces light of weight.
He brought it across to the butcher ]
and said: "What Is the meaning of
only giving me twelve ounces of meat
instead of one pound?" |
The butcher calmly replied: "I lost;
my one-pound weight, so I had to use j
vnnr nnp-nonnd Tifipfeet of tea."
Use of Torpedoes In Warfare.
Between 1878 and 1898, when the
Spanish-American war broke out, there i
were only twelve instances in which !
the torpedo had been nsed In actual warfare.
The Russo-Japanese war in ,
a/1 TnoT\Tr Annnrfnnlfioa ffiP :
iOVt auuiucu luau jr uyyviiuuiuvu |
the use of this deadly weapon of destruction,
and Whitehead's invention
caused great havoc. The combination
of the submarine boat and the torpedo
had its first real trial In the present |
war. ^
An Education.
"Did you manage to give y&nr boy
much schooling T
"Finest possible," rejoined Farmer
Corntossel. "Josh joined the army and |
4& being educated abroad."
PICTURE OF GERMAN VAMPIRE!'
Kaiser's Possession Embraces Many i
Miles, but No Square Meals, Says j
This Writer.
!
The German empire, better known j
as the German vampire, embraces 208,- j ;
830 square miles, but not a single .
square meal, says the Brooklyn Eagle. I ;
T* coo y Cl V (Tfil T1 fl <
JL|# X w Ui. AiU^jUVlUs?) tJAA p*. ??MV. |
duchies and 3,876,531 grand goosesteps. ! ]
In outline and Inclination it is likely ;
irregular. On the east it hounds Len- j <
ine. On the north It is hounded by the j <
allied fleets and on the west by Gen- ,
eral Halg. - I j
The principal waterways of Germany ; ,
are the seize and the Kiel canal. The i
high C's now under its control are con- 3
fined to the opera house. The Kiel j
canal is used for exercise by the bot- ! ,
tied ships on pleasant Sundays. j }
The seaboard, greatly restricted, like j
all other kinds of board, Is known as ;
the high cost of living. The country j ]
is not entirely op tne ievei. u nas xu ;.
the interior a large table land, entire-;.
ly empty. There are also deep depres-! ;
sions in all parts of the nation. ; ]
Berlin, the capital, was established 1 ,
in the thirteenth century on the Spree j
river. It has not yet recovered. The j .
inhabitants are divided into two main ,
classes?junkers and junked.
The present fooler is Kaiser Billious
II. His principal occupation is look- j
ina for a place in the sun. There is ,
something warmer than that in store
for him. It sounds something like (
Helgoland. The crown prince is the ^
barely apparent.
The national motto is "Spurlos ver- ,
senkt." J
CAPITAL WELL WORTH VISIT !
i
Merlda, Chief City of Yucatan, It by
No Means Lacking In Attractions i
for Tourist. j
A capital which most tourists never i
visit and of whose very existence
many Deople are ignorant is Merida, i
the chief city of Yucatan. Yucatan is 1
one of the richest Mexican provinces
and, to go further into the intricacies
of geography, forms the right arm of
the Gulf of Mexico. Merida, its show
city, officially began to exist in 1542,
when the Spaniards laid the corner
stone with much ceremony and proclaimed
grandly that the very loyal
and noble city of Merida, chartered by !
his most Catholic majesty, Philip II. 3
was now on the map. 3
*1' -Li "* r 14. t
since uieu menua ims giuwn vjuuoiue*ably,
acquired a plaza, cathedral,
university, hotels and a goodly number
of millionaires, and considers itself a
city of some importance. ^
One governor of Yucatan, with a j
well-developed sense of civic and na- j
tional pride, tried to separate the ^
wealthy citizens of the capital from s
some of their surplus change for im- ^
provement of the city. The millionaire
element could not see how it would s
gain anything by installing the beauti- i
fully paved boulevards described so i
eranhicallv bv their nromoter and re- c
fused to contribute. But the governor t
placed a tax on the henequen, the chief
source of Merida's wealth, and with
the proceeds, which ran into millions
of dollars, he laid pavements which
made walking and driving in the city
a joyous affair, instead of the unpleasant
necessity which it had been.
Thracians Used "Tanks/*
The modern tank had its precursor,
iiowever, in crude, says the Christian
Science Monitor. One can read all
about it in Alexander the Great's ex- 1
ploits. Just to show their dislike of l
Alexander in particular, and of Pan j
Hellenism in eeneral. the Thracians in
vented war machines la the shape of i
loaded wagons and conveyed them *"> ]
Mount Haemus, so as to command the i
pass through which Alexander's soldiers
must march. At the critical mo- 1
ment, the big, lumbering wagons, load- <
ed with rock, were launched straight ]
on the helpless men below. Alexander,
however, met this onslaught j
by ordering his men to lie down, and
to interlock their shields above them, j
so that the vehicles could roll over a (
road of shields. By this maneuver, (
we are told, he saved his army from ,
annihilation.
Misunderstood.
Santo Domingo?A few evenings ago (
?ur warden, Sweet (who, by the way, j
doesn't deserve his name at all), was (
dining at a "Fonda" with one of our ?
doe-eyed damsels and was looking over <
the menu when he asked her whether j
she would have a Httle shrimp. She t
blushed deeply and answered In sub- j
dued tones: "Oh, Mr. Dulce, you are j
so sudden/' Sweet, of course, denies (
fMo Vsiif rfAn rsAi*)iano IrnATTT him
luio, UUl JUU pciliapQ UVU c auu TT aaaui ^
like we do.?"Slim Jim," 44th Co., TJ. r
S. M. C., in the Marines Magazines. j
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Wasn't Doing It for Fun. (
A London banker was disturbed dur- ]
ing an air raid because a British threeinch
gun, mounted on an automobile
truck, took up a position directly in
front of his house. He went out and j
asked the officer in charge to move j
the gun farther down the street, as j.
the racket was too much for his nerves, T
and got this reply: "Look here, do t
'you take this for a blooming hurdy- (
gnrdy V t
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Here's German Efficiency. \
German industrial efficiency is so <
nearly a fetich in the popular mind r
that It is a distinct shock to hear It a
i challenge'7 *>y competent authority. t
"In m ouns days," said a con- t
tractor sit a recent trade gathering.
*we awarded a contract to bridge one j
of the swift western streams to a firm
of German engir.eers. Guess what they
did! Blamed ii they didn't build the
! cutwater of the piers downstream." \
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WAR BEGAN IN APRIL, 1913!
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Huge War Credit Was in That Year j
Voted in Germany and Supported j
by Socialists.
When did the war begin? April,
1913; not August, 1914, as the press
always has it, writes Charles Edward
Russel in Harper's. The real declaration
of war was made by the German
reichstag when it struck observing ,
dnmh on/1 /" Villi H\r nocciriff nn
UU1U1TC "uu V"'" |JUO(HU8| ""
extraordinary war credit of $250,000,
000; and to that act of belligerency in
a time of profound peace the socialists
En the reichstag gave practically their j
support.
All men in the world accustomed to :
make upon the day's news an intelli- j
^ent diagnosis must have gasped and )
stared at this portent. Unless Ger- J
m.inv deliberately Dlanned now to '
bring down upon mankind the war her j
armament had silently threatened these !
many years, there was no good reason i
for this perilous saber rattling; cer-!
tainly none appeared in the state of ,
Europe. Yet the socialists seemed to
be for it; that was the incomprehen- i
sible fact.
f
August Bebel, then still active, was
the ablest and most famous of their
leaders, and criticism from many lands
seemed to goad him into a defense. '
[t was of a nature to chill the last
hope in any friend of peace. Two ,
reasons he gave for the reichstag's
action. One was that President Poincare
of France, who had been but new
ly elected, was a warlike and danger3ns
man, and no one conld tell to what
lengths he might go. The other was
that in the Balkan wars the Turks,
taught by German officers, had been
beaten by the Serbians, taught by
French.
The judicious might grieve indeed ;
when they came upon such an offering j
from such a source, and anybody able j
to read might see that war was close .
at hand.
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ANGRY AT BEING DISTURBED
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I
Did Gentleman Vastly More Annoyed
at Constable Than He Was at Hun
Air Raiders.
"He wasn't half angry," said a con- ;
stable to me, smiling reminiscently as
le cast his eye over what remained?
nostly top story only?of an old-fashoned
house which had suffered in a
*ecent air raid. "You should have
leard his language!"
"Curious thing," I said, "the top floor
ioesn't appear to be touched."
"Yes, that's where he was," said the
nonstable. "Of course, we thought he ,
vas a casualty. We cleared away the
nhhish. and somehow or other got up
:o his rooms with ?n ambulance and
:he doctor. The door was closed, so we
started prying it open. That's when
:he fun started.
"The door was flung open, and there
stood the old gentleman with a big j
>ook in his hands, his 'specs' on, and
n a proper temper. I just caught a
flimpse of a cosy armchair drawn up '
:o a blazing fire.
** 'What the does this mean ?' j
le says. 'Haven't I been disturbed j
mough this evening? Get out of it, j
ill of you.' And without troubling to l
shut his door, he went back and sat \
iown with his book beside the fire, j
nuttering most awful. It gave me .
he biggest shock of the raid."?Lonion
Mail. ;
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Not Equal to it.
They had not been married very j
ong, but she had grown cold and list-!
ess; so one evening, after she had i
rawned about seventeen times, he said:
"You seem to be so cold and indiffer*
^r i ' T T fViAOA
?nt, juaivina. nave )uu xutguncu
lappy days when I was paying you !
ny addresses?"
"I should think I hnven't! I should i
:hink I haven't forgotten those happy I
lays. I never had less than three fel-:
ows every evening calling on me."
"But, dear, haven't you got me to j
pay you attention now?"
"Yes, I suppose I have. You are dong
the best you know how; but you
lon't flatter yourself that you are
iqual to three, do you?"?Stray Stories.
Comments Sailor's Bravery.
For gallano-y in rescuing from
Jrowning a lad eight years of age Secretary
Daniels has commended Arthur
Dtto Radcliffe, a seaman of the United
States navy. Alongside of the United
States steamship Wadsworth, on which
;he sailor was stationed, lay a tug. A j
small boy played about the deck with
10 thought of danger. Suddenly he
fell overboard. Before the warning
rarne the child had floated seventy-five
rards or more from the tug and ship.
Then Radclilfe came into action. Jumpng
into the water, he swam to the boy
md brought him to safety. Radcliffe
jnlisted in the navy in 1915, at Des
koines, Iowa.
"Germ-Proof" Money.
To a bank in Spokane, Wash., beongs
the distinction of circulating the
irst antiseptic germ-proof national
>ank notes. The United States treas- j
lry is still experimenting with devices
o laundry dirty bank notes to bright
:risp ones, but the Spokane bank has
:he first sanitary money on record,
rifty thousand dollars in bills, put out
>y the bank, were signed with an Ink
=aid to consist largely of carbolic acid,
rhe result is the bills are saturated
vith an agency which means death to
he most vigorous germ who'd live
here.
1
,
Her Repartee.
"John, I wi?h you'd stop snoring."
the matter with you now?"
"Nothing, only I'm getting tired of
iese sleepless nights." |
flDHHMraHBMiBHBH
I Proof the
do Avoid
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Mrj. Etta Dorion, of C
"I suffered from female troi
like a knife through my bacls
strength so I had to go to bed.
but I would not listen to it. I
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
bottle brought great relief and
All women who have female
T.trrlic. "P\ "Pinlrha.m's Vfiirfttabli
(JU/UAW JU> A
How Mrs. Boyd Avoid
Canton, Ohio.?"I suffered fr
caused me much suffering, and
I would have to go through an <
get well.
"My mother, who had been he
ham's Vegetable Compound, ac
fore submitting to an operation
my troubles so I can do my hou
difficulty. I advise any woman1
female troubles to give Lydia E
table Compound a trial and it
~ ? * " ?r? ar .
lor toe in. ?mrs. iXL^LXiiXi l>uj
I N. E., Canton, Ohio.
8 Everif SicR"W
I LYDM
I VEGEXfl
I Before Sul
^NCL
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* lOUiUIg UVJU? (?U grm this
government in which the v
home army; the home army he
120 million Allies must eat.
MODERN HEALTH CRUSADE 1
ENROLLS MILLION CHILDREN |
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Movement Under National Tnberculos- ]
is Association Broadens.?Endorsed i J
by American Red Cross and Work- !,
ing With Junior Red Cross.?South j
Caolina Has Enrolled Over 2,000 j t
Crusaders.?Every County Waking {,
Up to Health Work Auiang Our ;
VililUl Vlii .
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That nearly 1,000,000 boys and girls 1
throughout the nation have now been 1
enrolled as Modern Health Crusaders, 1
and that recruiting to increase this (<
membership to still greater numbers J1
will soon begin, was announced today ,J
hv the National Tuberculosis Associa. { 3
tion, under whose direction this move- 11
ment is conducted The Crusade, the 1
Association states, "centers about a
simple but fundamental program of 1
health 'chores', on the part of children,
and enlists the rising generation ;
of the nation's citizens in a better un- ,
derstanding of individual and public .
it SomeWi
Operatior
Wto save
T V OUJ O
lbles which caused piercing pains
: and side. I finally lost all my
The doctor advised an operation
thought of what I had read about
Compound and tried it. The first
six bottles have entirely cured me.
trouble of any kind should try
e Compound."
ed an Operation.
om a female trouble which
two doctors decided that / V
>peration before I could J ^ v
Iped by Lydia E. Pink- f 1 11
l-trico/l mo trt frv if V>n / i f
LTAOVU UiV WV Vi J 1 *J W" i II M
. It relieved me from /! \\ ijfj i
se work without any y { \\ ]/
who is afflicted with / \ w J
!. Pinkham's Vege-/ *
; will do as much / sr T'f-} >
:d, 1421 5th St., I M Uyj y\
foman SholM
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i E. PINK!
lBLE CON
Tmittirid Tn An
^UTOIA E.PINKHA1
? SAM'S PA
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(Cov
Cueing more food, and savin;
tromen of America have co-op
re must help the fighting for
lealth essentials."
"The American Red Cross/' the As
sociation announces, "has now officia
y endorsed Modern Health Crusad<
3. D. Gibson, the general manager c
;he Red Cross, has written to the mar
?oror? nf its fourteen divisions, incluc
w v/i. ?v?- ?. ?? _
ng the foreign division, bespeakin
;heir cooperation in this movement. J
i letter to the Associaion Mr. Gibso
says that he 'takes pleasure in endors
ing the program of the Health Cri
saders as giving an interesting an
jseful held for patriotic service <
:he school children and the promotio
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31 Danontu weuaic. . u.. ? ?.
bracken, National Director of the Jui
ior Red Cross, also commends tt
movement, in a statement herewit
made public, 'to every school child i
the nation.' During the summer D
MacCracken says, the divisions of tl
Red Cross will be 'supplied with Mo<
ern Health Crusade material for di
l ?n c^Vina1 tPafViprc; nT
cnouuun IU an sv/u^v. iv?v?
the individual score cards for tl
daily health chores, which each chi
must perform to become
omen I
pound!
. Operation '
M MEDICINE CO. LYNN,MASS* 11
RTNER
^ ofi
Lift *?*
irtesr of Life and Charles Dana Glbaem.)
g food are all war-time efforts of
erated loyally. We are all in the
ces and home armies over there;
??m
member, will "be made available for A
xrtf e/?V?AAl
tiitJ t VV tiIILy UIXlllVJUQ U1 cvuwi \ w*4vi>~" jMm|
1- ren in America.'
0 j "iXew insignia for the coming year/'
)f the Association's announcement con- jlS
u eludes, "have now been prepared for
j the Crusader hosts. These consist of I
,r a button fo- the Squire, a silver pin
a for the Knight and a gold pin for the
a l Knight Banneret. The button shows
I T of nror* against' rlispasp and"
J JjiUCI LJ Ub rf Ui ____
j. the metal pins show a Crusader bow(j
man about to let his arrow fly from flfl
^ j behind his Modern Health Crusader
,n i shield."
c- The movement in rhis State is fosti
fired by South Carolina Anti-Tuberie
culosis Association, which holds that fl
,h ' the "health of the child is the power fl
in of the nation." The growing rrtm aH
r. bership of this organization to o^?
13 2.000 shows the interest of oui M
S- ?* ?
id J
j3 666 cures by removing the cause- ^
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