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i * 1 ; VOLUME LY., JTUMBEB 7!. ' \EWBEERY, S. C? TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 191S. TWICE A WEEK, $U0 A YEAB IT WORK OR FIGHT AND IT SHOULD BE. \ ?? I I believe it was Patrick Henry who f is reputed to have said in one of his fcursts of eloquence away back yonder somewhere. "Gve me liberty or give death." And it seems to us that we L read that either Patrick or some other ?reat man of the great past sail | something like this: "The time for action has arrived," and the reverse is also true, that the time fcr talk has 1 passed. i- - i 1 -A-- - a +rv1lr ohrtllt IntT 'we nave nau iulo ui mis. v alty and patriotism and slackers and standing behind the government and our president and our boys over there and/all that sort of thing. As we see it, tHis is the time for action. The time to do things and not t&lk all day long. A certain amount of talk, it is p true, Is necessary that the people may/ be informed. Mr. Wood from the government was in Newberry the other day and made a talk of two hoars at the court house to a crowded house and told the folks that all men between the draft ages must either go to work in Bome productive employment or be sent to the front line trenches, and that the gov f ernment had some 300 or more men In this State as detectives to take .note-of those who were not obeying the command to work or fight, and that there were a couple*of these men I In the audience he was addressing. That places in stores and offices that could he fill<>d by women and that were now filled by men who are subject to the draft, that these men must get out and go to work in some productive employment or they would be sent at onoe to the battle front. And the cityi has passed an ordinance to the same effect, and it is now necessary frop every one betweer the ages of 16 and 60 to have a pa.'ss that he Is employed or he will be subject to arrest'aaicr in^earmy. * ?That is all well. It should not bo necessary to have to pass laws to get men aad women to do things in this crisis of the Country's history, but it seems that it is, and the thing to do now is to enforce the regulations or v .the laws and not simply pass them and talk about them. The man or the woipan who is not willing to lend a helping nana m mis VI IOiO Ui Va*w . country, to "labor in whatever sphere lie may b<* planed, and to do what he can, scrrcely deserves to be classed as a gbtfd citizen. , Mr. Wood clid that labor was to be stabilize ! and the man who did . pay ? njorp v*n was a reasonable B and j -;>rice in order to induce lapor from oel'e was to be taken r up a*-5 war, and that now ' the **"v ~~~''? ^ mandatory' for the labor ^ re:r*-> wlier* it was, and ?ho"- -' vow wasted energy resul ~7 tr-^m r"van{r:n" from one place to :vothr-\ This f* a fime when all y jt *r 5e cor-erved, and that 1* -\'2.s xnc ? important just now to < ?*?' erve ran power than anything e'-(\ because the other things- de p nr so r^v\ prop? dir~?t:Dn nr3 r' fVe man power of t*e country. All non-essential busiposses -pf 1 hqv to do>e until the e"d cf iv*-* v Ifc. The trustees of every school district in the cor^t- are taking a census of the labor in the d'stricts and r? ports would be made. H Another matter to which he called attention was that a good many perHr >:ons were getting too big an allot- : ment from the government, and othW ers "Were not getting enough, and in f any event if the persons receiving al~ l lotments were able to do work the 1 | allotment would not excuse them 1 from the work, and if they refused W ' to work the allotment would be taken - 1 ? ll>!? U to nmh_ 3-WSy. XI iiioifHci AO |/i v?/ able tbat the o-overnraent will provide 1 for a compensation committee in each 1 county to whom all allotments would 1 be sent,*and If it was not all needed 1 thp balance would be kept for th<* soldier rrti! his retnrn from the war. As to the farmer Jie ursed the us? J of machinery wherever it could be 1 used to ma?"? rr> f^r the loss of man ^ power on the farm. And instead of 1 buying automobiles to purchase trac- j' tioii engines and sulky plows and thus ' save man power. The neoole who heard Mr. Wood were very much impressed with what he said, and no doubt his talk in Newberry will do good and helD to arc"*? j our people the more to realize that ? *e are new n.t wr ard that it is im- ' REGISTRATION IS NEWBERRI EXCEEDS THREE THOUSAND The registration of men between the ages, of 18 and 45 on the 12th exceeded in Newberry county, three thousand, or to be exact was 3,211 This does not include those already registered for the war between the ages of 21 and 31. ! There were 320-0 native born citiA zens; 2 naturalized; 4 dclarant aliens (1st papers); 5 non-declarant aliens. Ther? were 1573 whites; 1637 nesfroes; 1 oriental. As to the division in ages there were 384, 18: 275, 19; 219, 20; 24 21: 1, 23: 1. 28; 2, 31; 05 32; 185 33; 1P5, 34; 190. 35; 196, 36; }92 37; 190 3S; 161. 39; 172, 40; 131, 41; 149 42; 140. 43; 133, 44; 20S, 45. After passing the age of 31 it is a little remarkable as to' the number at each age being about* the same. SUNDAY JOY RH>im We take no stock in the plea that automobile owner? should be permitted to use their machines on Sundays, as that is their only day of rest and recreation. Those who say they would be willing for their machines to stand ?' idle for two days in a week, i/ permitted to use and enjoy them on Supday3, do not understand the question at all. The purpose is to conserve the supply of gasoline, and the man who is not willing to deny himself a little pleasure on .Sundays order to help yr>r-pr Is a sorry citizen. !' Most of us can remember the time whej nobody w^t, auiomobiling on . Snnfays, for there were no automobile? then, tov riding is not in anv ' sense a necessity. Some neonle used their machines as - usual last Sunday, but let us :believe* they did not fully understand the mat- ; **"" . # .* ' * . ' ter. There will be fewer automobiles' in use next Sunday, and within a ' month it will be considered a sort of disgrace to be seen in . an automobile on a Sunday except absolute necessity ?Anderson Mail. / ) THE "MOTORLESS SUNDAY." We are engaged in a great and ter- , ^fically expensive war. We have to win it if we understate to go on living 1 ,1; st as if there, was no war at all. There are certain definite things that have to be done in order to carry on , the war, and one of those things is , fhe maintenance of a sufficient supply , of oil and gasoline for war purposes.-. The only way to maintain that suppl.7 \ is to divert, a portion -of the vast quan- . tity of those materials new consumed , in private .ise; and this the fuel ad ? ministrations' "motorless (Sunday" re- , quest Is designed to do and will do if , it is carried out by the people. It. a perfectly plain proposition and no , infalliorflnt nn/l Tlfl OitiZfiTl ShOUld lUbV114^VU(/ (iUU ? ? ? T ? have any difficulty is in the premises. , The fuel administration makes per. , Cectly plain that it asks the elimina'?on on Sundays of pleasure motoring only. Persons who wish to do so can split hairs as to what constitutes . Measure mortoring, but they had bet- , tpr> hp rnrpfnl not to offend their own \ consciences of* the patriotic sentiment their more straightforward neighbors.-?Charleston News and Courier. . \ Motorless Sunday. : It is hard to believe that more than * a very few of those who violated mo- ^ tcrless Sunday did so with malice 1 prepense, as the lawyers say. The ' frailty ones must be forgiven this time, but reminded that they are expected to fall in line with the great. * nioiontv n f their fellow-motorists next Sunday and give loyal obedience f o their country's request. The fom- ( munity will soon reach the point of * being as indignant over a breach c? fhe raotor-car restrictions as over a < violation of the food regulations, and * riehtly so. For no one in America lias a right, after the government ex- * r nressly forbids it, to burn up gasoline that might be necessary to the live? .{ of some brave boys in France.?Chgr- J( leston Post. I \ " 1 r We are looking forward with ereat. Measure to the next session of Newberry college, which will begin on j the 26th instant. portant that we conserve all the rc- i sources and the energy that we have :o help vrn the war n-vok. J AMFJttCAX ABtJffY STRIKES SUD- 0 DO' BLOW SMASHING HUN LINE . J Fcrsl^ng Launches Attack on a 20- (J TlAe Uaitle Front Gaining Ground Everywhere.?Americans Take 70) -Prisoners yi Initial Stages of Battle and Miner Kemarxaoij iLitun i asu ; r!ties. * | e: The American first army under ^ command of Gen .Pershing is in action against the Germans on a twenty Q mile front on the famous St. Mihiel u salient in Lorraine, which* has stood j as a sharp wedge in the French line southeast of Verdun since the comei mencement of the war \ w In the preliminary thrust ground . was gained on tooth sides of the trian-1 - - + OI4. OTwl gie ana ciibu at apci at ot. ?uiuici ?.uu. ^ at last accounts the Americans with g1 whom some French troops are briga- ^ ded, were fast sweeping across the h salient in an effort to close the mouth of the 'big pocket before the Germans can extricate themselves from the * * rt/ perilous positon they are in as a resuit of the suddenness of the blow 0 . - Ol and the element of surprise it carried with it c< TOUR *TT.E ADVAJfCE * Although the advance of the Ameri- 1 cans was swift and sure and gains in ** C( excess of four miles on the southern side of the feattle area<were made, the 111 cavalry outstripped the ' tanks and m footmen and was last reported operat- tr ing along the railroad near Vtgneulls ** almost in the center of the salient and some ten miles northeast of St. Mihiel and also northwest of Pcmt-a-Mous- ei '* '' ? - l *1, ^ v.. son, inrougn tne ioresis ana ?iong me m railway line running northward to 0] Metz, the great German fortress, the oi ' ^ t 1 southern outer fQrtifications of which *e are less than ten miles distant. pi Thlacourt, - Bouillouville, iPaniaes ti and several other towns in. the so jth d were captured in the initial dash. <F while oh the west at the northern R edge of the pocket, the village of ti Combres was captured and the envir- w cms of Dammart.in-la-Montague were r" reached. To the south everywhere ui the Americans penetrated into the tc heights cf the (Meuse and the French si fought their way into the outskirts of tt St. Mihiel. Unofficial reports are to the effect that the town has 'been recaptured by the French. tt 200-Mile Front. t* The fighting -ront at the commence- ai n* i-Via ihattlp Qtrfrrp.prat.prt twentV !V LUVilV V/l ? MW?.W - "O"" -V*. - rmile?eight miles on the western side t<? and twelve miles on the southern tt side. The fighting was preceded by m an exfereme heavy artillery bombard- V ment and the troops and tanks ad- re vanced under barrage which was car- tb ried out with mathematical precision, at 'Prom the war maps it would 8 iem F: almost impossible for the Germans to r< evacuate the salient as they apparent- r* \v aw Irvine- to do without huee loss- w .7 mu ?J C? % " 5s in men and materiaL The first rent's show that the Americans took 703 nriconers in the first stages of er fhe battle and had suffered remark- in ibly small f?ap""alt*es. - ' th ' Foch's Strategy, ?r The strategy of Marshal Foch in the ta present maneoaver cannot 'be foreseen except that it has as the first at Dbjective t.be levelling of the St. es Mihiel sector and the straigthening hz Df the Allied line from the region of ^ Verdrrt eastward. The obliteration of fa :he salient would be necessary before Fi > direct, thm st toward German terr!- fo :orv from this region would be possi- ?? ^e. Whether Marshal Foch has in di riew a campaign up the Meuse valley nni f,hp valley in >? fr\ cofin illII4.1 i Ciiiamo tu uc T"> the north Field Marshal 'Haig is G< st/? 11 hard after the Germans in the m ""'on of Cambrai. -H?re he asrain ha"-, r.? advanced his front toward the much ^ le=ired German T>a?e; penetrated in- di *> fMe old'Brinsn aeiense unes; urv??- an ^ C*nal T>n NTd north of 'Ha^in- 3T< ourt.; taken Harrvincourt and cth- ar ir section of the Hinden'burg line th =er?t a thousand Germans into Wi he British prisoners' cage in the rear, ne aorrpans f^usrht. hard at Havrin*ourt to stay the British, but all tfceir sa wore ^eaten off. se Further advances for the British a^ pre renor^ed in the region Brit- th oh hnt nil thp.ir counter-attacks were ha )eaten off. o? Laura Stuart, a nromtoent role**"' f1? voma-n of Ninety S*x, wrs married <*r <v*ently to W. TV Ba^Jrr** r* >0??_|Vir>r?*v co? Oi*e . t^* ouriia], lltb. , >PE RATION REGARDED , AS ENTERING WEDGE j i leneral Pershing Expected to Strike ! Still Harder Blows at Germans j Since St. Mihlel Salient Has Been Wiped Ont in Splendid Success. Washington, Sept. 13.?Complete ; ummauon or me 01. lYimiei sanem uy j eneral Pershing's army and cooper- j ting with French forces, many army j fficials here believe, is only the enuring wedge of operations of far irger scope. Official dispatches still were delayd and the full scope of the victory ron by the Americans in their first idependent action could not be j auged. It was regarded as probable.. owever. that. General Pershing's mep : all were pressing forward to get in )uch "with the no*7 line the enemy ' opes to hol'i. Until definite word comes as to the ne across the mouth of the destroyed ilient which the Americans now hold fficers here will he unable to form pinions as to the most probable jurse future operation in this thea-< ir will take. There is a strong belief awever, that the quick reduction of te St Mihiel salient will make thfl wnerstone of a great encircling: rovement aimed at isolating the Ge?an fortress of iMetz, the center but' ess of the whole German front from le North Sea to the Swiss border,, Fine Strategy Used. THa- strategic imnortance of Gen ral Pershing's smashing victory irrtlr can be overestimated in the jinion of many observers. It is out I ??11 proportions to the extent of thn rrijtory regained or the forces em!oyed/.it is ?aid. for the remoyal of lis menace in tfee rear -of -the French tadel of Verdun has released the rench armies from that point to fifefms for active offensive operaons. It'also has liberated the railay line from Verdun to Conimercv. -x 1 VftutfjT ve thost value to General Per.ihing and i the French armies on hi3 left in jpporting future operations along lis front. It was the loss of tjiis railroad, ?vered by the Germans in 1914 with te capture of St. Mihiel, which placed >e Verdun fortress in gravest jeoprdy and brought on the battle of erdun. where the Germans met a birr and costly defeat at the hands of te French. Ever since then the Geran grin on the heights around erdun has held the French in this igion and to the east and west of ie salient chained to defensive operion. The numerical strength of ths rench army was not sufficient ts >nnit an effort to drive the enemy * without weakening the lines elsehere. Releases Vfiuv if on. General Pershing now has signalisl the entry of the American army to the war by smashing it* in less tan two days of fighting. Early refixed the' number of prisoners ken by theA mericans at 12,000 and .r^pV?iv |-0r)rr>r-pr?t t.hfi wp^kage of least three enemy divisions. No timate of the war booty captured is been received. .Since the new line " oss the rrrouth of the old nocket is r shorter than th6 old front -ench and American troops heretore held fast to the defense of the 1?ent are now available for other' ity. As the lines were reported tonight <arn TWhins: to indWte tbat the nerican advance had stopped. The * jrman official statement says that a >w line had been prepared but the Lt.nrp of the conntrv wher? the ne^i^an troops stood late today in rated tnat tne uerman aeiense pu:ions must be farther back toward Dtz. where better natural obstacle* e available. It was expected here at American patrols would push forard to feel out this line before a w advance is undertaken. The German statement that the lient had heen evacuated without rions interference caused much niqpm^nt amone: officers in view of e number of prisoners captured. It * ? rr n ,s Deen estimated uiuc < uivisium the enemy were in the salient, inv tiding those standing guard at fts mkg. Probably not more than four o^ons have at any time been in the of the pocket and of these, more T5 one-fourth have been captured. t? a rc're't %The Boys A IS T1 i seeping 11 jPLEDGE? % | Are you I I ?_ I paying iu I ings Stani | subscribe I County is | ments an< t not to d ? I - any ionge . " 1 I, .WKRy. IN SO B0FB8 CLEARED THE . 11 DANGEROUS ST. SXHIEL SALIEM-. t 18,900 Prisoner Mi $4 Cannon Are1J Captared^Beriln Tries to Camon-i ; flage the Seriousness of the Battle! i +kf Alleging the German 10th Dhis-j c ion Was Ordered to Retreat, But 1 the Number of Prisoners and Gong ? Taken Tell Another Story. j ( "T London, Sept. 13.?In less than 36 t Thnnrs General Pershing's First Amer- e ican army has wiped out the entire < St. tMihiel salient, the last German e wedge on the entire western .front c that presented any menace to the j Allies. 1 Tonight, the Franco-American front, r instead of running in a huge "V-shaped t angle around <St. Mihiel, runs straight from Pagny-sur-Moselle, on the Ger- ' 3 man border, northwestward to the t foot of the range of Meuse Heights via u Hattonville, a mile northwest of a Vigneulles. which was the nerve cen- j a ter of the German- communications j d within the pocket. ' t ' At least 13,000 prisoners ar$ report- to ed to,have been taken by the Ameri- l cans and sixty guns have been cap- ; t tured. tft+oi ariv-an/>o r>p the American \ o 11XC bUtMi MUTMUVV V*. J __ right, from Fey-en-Haye to. Pa?&y- j S sur- Moselee, is 13 miles, e"ghf o! j which were made since yesterday. [ 1 The operation has shortened the | Franco-American front by one-half, j c cutting it from forty to twenty miles, i The vital railway connecting Ver- j v w;th Commercy. Toul and Nancy, ; F has been completely disengaged by j +h? successful American drive am* . a may now be used by the Allies. PARTS. Fridov fhp thirteenth of, n September?The St. Mihiel salient is j no more. ; n Where before dawn yesterday a e German wedge, 15 miles deep and 20 11 miles wide, poked its ugly head with 0 arrogant challenge far into French 0 ?< j such a cost hardly can be considered as a successful evacuation and thev ; are inclined to accept the German ; statement as promulgated for home C consumption. It was said that for the V high command to acknowledge that a the first American blow had blotted p out in less than two days a salient n that had been held for four years and ii also cost the Germans more than 12.000 prisoners in addition to their dead, might further agitate the Ger man civil population. J At the same time, it is not doubted J Til at trie uerman leauers expeuLeu mu * stroke and made such preparations as ; I ihev com id toward getting their main j | forces out of the salient. The swift-1 | ness of the American advance on th*3 ? 3"! 1 OBftTTIC! tn T'Q TJTlCflf ? JLlill'llS, UU W C V Cl y ocvmo tu uav ^ ?j/wV>. their plans. And it is believed here t flint the figures of. war materal cap- j | ^ red will Venr out this view*. ? i ire | , r W I ip*r1 ! I I ^ t seeping yours by f r the War Sav- I ps for which you < 1? Newberry * p behind on pay- | 1 you are asked | efer the matter \\ I sr. jOi rainc, between Verdun and Toul? he last German menace on the entire areatefn -? Se*rs>ftrg's First Uwrican army is -squatting 'squarely u front- of Germany's frontier tonight, esting up after the hardest and fastest tussle of the war, consolidating ? M gained ground; counting prisoners I md booty and singing "Where Da Wei Jo From Here?" * I Clear across what was the neck of I he German hernia, from Cheminot. | >ast of the (Moselle, via Pagny, on the Jerman frontier, to Dommartin, north sast of St <Mihiel, runs the first line if \niarican trericfies," and the great )ocket below tfcat line swarms with ; Yankee troops. Thousands of Ger- j aans are still within the pocket? j lut they are either dead or captured. It took the Americans just at out. ' 0 hours to smash the great salient o bits and half a rdozen more for mopping up." France marvels anew t the lightening speed and unquench* .ble thirst for pction the doughboys lisplayed in this, their own battle, as hey did when they fought breast-toreast with the poilus on the Marae. The Yankee yeomen has knocked he Teuton terror into a cocked hat The numbec 13 figured conspicu usly in Pershing's junket across, the amous wedge. . To begin with, it was Friday tha Zlh. Tonight the number of prisoners is initiated at 13,300. On their right the Americans ad- ' anced 13 miles from Fey-en-Have ' 'a^ny. The attack there was launched on 13-mile front Also there are 13 letters, in the ame "John J. Pershing." Vigneulles-les-Hattonchatel, th? erve center in the salient, more than 1 iglit miles northeast of , St. Mihiel, 3ll to the Americans in the last phase f the attack today?the last salient f the elimination of the salient. I v Trsnwood Red Cross. The Trariwood auxiliary of the Rel : ross will meet at the school house Wednesday afternoon .September 13, t 5 o'clock. Members who have be?n iecing squares for the house com- ' iifc:ee will please bring or send them i at this meeting. i * , Mrs. C. A. Matthews, Chairman. mimimiiiimiiimiiimmiiimKiiiin:?; ONE SPOON, PLEASE. ; , ? ! Make one spoon of sugar j Do the work of two. Keep the program going | Until the war is through. i ||