The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, January 17, 1919, Page THREE, Image 3
, HERO BELITTLES DEED
Doesn't Think Much of Act That
Won Cross.
I All He Did Was Swim River Under
J Fire and Rescue Wounded
Frenchman.
Pittsburgh.?"Now listen, get me!
There's been so much hot air about
L this hero stuff that I want you to get
J It straight. I saw this French bird
' -across the river and I went and got
Aim. If I hadn't sdTueone else probably
Leonid have taken the same chance."
In these words CapL Walter R.
Plannerv. who was awarded the Cross
K -of War for swimming the Marne river
B and rescuing a wounded French sol|px
^ler at the time the Germans held the
Aisne-Marne salient, disposes of any
? attempt to make a hero of him for the
-deed. At the time Flannery was a lieu~tenant
He is at his home here on a
forlough.
The wounded man lay on the bank
across the river from where the
Americans were stationed at Savigny.
Disregarding a French officer's warning
that it probaWy was a ruse to at"fcract
Americans over that the Huns
wiisrht learn what division ODDOSed
ttiem, Flannery waited until nightfall,
when he stripped to his underclothing
and swam across. The Germans
-spotted him and most of the trip was
nder water. Flannery tells the rest
of the story as follows:
"When I got over I found the man.
-All the French I knew was lei, ici'?
liere, here'?and then the bird went
hysterical and refused to come into
? the water. He was too weak to tie
the rope I had brought along, so I
had to drag him in. We got over all
-right.
"*"ut the joke was that a couple of
<iays later I got orders to report to a
/inlnnal rtorc won
X1 lUUVli VViUUVli JL1\.(4U\(UUI VV4V
4&bout seven miles away, so I hoofed
it back, expected to be put on patrol
duty of some sort I presented myself
and couldn't find out what the
program was. They told me to go
stand behind a major. I did, but the
major kept rambling around, and me
after Mm like a goof. j
"Then I was told to go forward on
, ^ the parade ground, and a French general
lined me up, pointed a sword at
me and turned on the French. It
wasn't much of a conversation, for I
didn't know what he was talking about,
so I just grinned. Then he let down
the sword, pinned this on me?the
Croix de Guerre?started kissing
me. Say, that mustache tickled me
from ear to ear. I'm off saving men
:aher this.** , ;
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* Blind Man (Sets Work
2 in Munition Factory *
2 Willlmantte, Conii.?Connecti- J
cut is believed to be the first
0 state in the Union to provide 2
munition work for a blind man.
2 John B. McCarthy of this city, 2
who lost his sight two years ago,
? has been at work for several ?
weeks in a nearby munition fac
a tory crimping primers for big *
guns. He was aided in securing
employment by Superintendent
| E J. Martindale of the United *
States Employment agency, and
J Stettson K. Ryan, secretary of J
the state board of education far
1 the blind. ' 2
1 . .
1*0MAN SHERIFF MAKES GOOD
4fhen She Goes After an Offender,
He Had Better Surrender
Peacefully.
Coleman, Tex.?Mrs. John R. Banal
ster is the new sheriff of Coleman
-sonnty. All who know her say that
when she buckles on her six-shooter
rod goes out to make an arrest the offender
had better make peaceful surrender
if he knows what is good for
him. It is not meant by this that Mrs.
Bannister, is a woman of the roughman
type?on the contrary she is an
assuming, quiec ana prepossessing in
looks. The sum and substance of it
1s that she belongs to a stock of westerners
that does not know what fear
te when it comes to fulfilling what she
Relieves to be her official duty.
Mrs. Bannister's husband, Captain
Bannister, who died recently, was sheriff
of Coleman county for many years.
CDs wife astfsted him in his work in
- many ways and is said to be thoroughly
familiar with the details of the office.
It was but natural that she
should be elevated to the vacant position,
her friends say.
"LEISURE PERILS FIGHTERS"
Library Chief Says Books Keep Yank
Soldiers Out of Trouble
Overseas. j
New York.?Declaring that the
leisure hoar of the American overr
seas is the hoar of greatest moral
peril," and that good reading does
much to fceep lonely soldiers straight.
Dr. M. L. Rainey, field manager of the
American Library association, has reported
to the New York state branch
bow soldiers, sailors and social worfc
1 'V ?ri **, Msil
era nave uwu piviwru mui guvu icouIng
matter. Doctor Bainey said that
in ten months the association has es-t
fablished 42 libraries for the army,
and stocked them with 600,000 books
and 2,000,COO magazines, all of wfclcfc
had been contributed. The working i
force consisted of 318 persons, om- j
Jaird of whom served without oar.
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THINGS TO LEARN IN NAVY ]
Old Fetty Officer Reminds the Recruits
There Are Some Things That
Cannot Be Taught.
The ol<l petty ollicer in charire of
?1 1! w /ii'n>v ? iIoi-m hronlh :Hi(l
I I1L Ml III."' ??i * ? u v?v x J' v.. looked
down the long lines of newly
enlisted apprentice seamen. A few ??f
the hoys won? from the poorer quarters
of nearby cities and towns: some (
were from the farming districts; but
the greater number were undergraduates
from colleges and universities
flocking to the colors at the first intimation
of their country's need, and
all were astonishingly transformed by
the mere donning of uniforms and
caps, into potential sailors for the
ships of the United States navy.
The petty officer cleared his throat,
writes Harriet Welles in Scribner's.
Somehow the sunshiny parade ground,
bordered by cheerful yellow brick barracks
and backed by the sparkling
blue of Narragansett bay and the distant.
pointed spires of Newport
sunnmrl tnn fneOtlsrrUOllslV
peaceful compared.with the things of
which he was trying to speak. He
cleared his throat again.
"I'd like to' remind you, lads." he
said, "that there are some things In
our navy that you'll have to learn for
yourselves. We can teach you the
manual of arms and the drills; and
there are schools here to train you for
any branch of ship's work that you
have a leaning toward?wireless, electricity.
signal corps, hospital corps,
engineering, cooking and yeoman's
work?hut what you've got to get. if
you're to he of any real use, is the
spirit of the navy!
"Maybe there's those with education
AnA?irrli f a AVttl.tin eiut'lf fA ITjYII
lhvu^ii iu rApinni iiuu oj/iiii i"
I haven't got the words. I. only know
what it means in actions. Summod up.
it amounts to about this: Aboard ship
there ain't no you ant! there ain't no
me; there's just us! And we're working
together under the flag of the finest
country on earth."
NO VEHICLE FOR AN AVIATOR
Motorcycle Which. Was "Jogging Along
at Only 64 Miles an Hour,"
Injured Rider.
At present T am in the convalescent
ward of an American aviation center
in Italy, recovering from a slight accident
wherein the motorcycle?the
silly beast?shied at a dog and ran
off the road while I was jogging quietly
jiloner nt (U miles an hour. Lieut.
Paton MacGHvray, IT. S. A., writes !n
Atlantic Magazine. These crazy cycles
seem to poke along, after one has
been riding in a pl;?ne near the ground,
making twice that speed. Hence the
temptation to run wide open on
"high."
I had my usual luck?motorcycle almost
a coinp'ete wreck?but I was
gently tossed 20 or JM) feet'from the
scene of the accident and thus got out
of the way. When found to be suffering
from a sprained left ankle, a
rather deep gash down t;> the bone on
my left shin, a dislocated thumb and
a face that is a sight to behold?I
never was a beauty until now?It's
quite wonderful how the little experiences
of life make a new man of you.
And really aviation. I am finding, has
its dangers.
Were tt lot that the accident occurred
the l'ne of duty" I should
probably be explaining to some stern
court-martial why our camp has one
less cycle. The commanding officer
forbade hm? riding a motorcycle again,
saying ratker delicately that aviators
are too valuable to waste; but somehow
or other I have rather a sneaking
suspicion ifcat it was merely a tactful
way ( saying that motorcycles in
Italy are too valuable to waste on
this particular aviator.
His Autobiography.
A#
IG one Ol lite im^ uuac uuoimaio
the army lot long ago a new librarian
was set to work by the American Library
association. She was a very
charming young woman, and very
anxious to please all of her "customers."
though some of them didn't even
wish to look at a book. In her rounds
she approached one of the patients
and he declined to be interested in
her wares. A* the next cot she stopped
and offered its occupant a book.
"What's it about?" the patient
asked. j
w0h. this is Rambi." said the librarian.
"It's about ft girl who niar^
ried a man without his having ai/^
thing to sa.r about if."
"Hold on there." shouted the man
who had declined all hooks. He raised
himself up on his elbow and reached
out his hand. "Give me that book.
It's iriy autobiography."?From a Bulletin
of the American Library Assocla-;
tlon. |
Human in Spite of Stars.
A private of tfie buck speci?*s was \
watching a plane fluel in the skies, j
"Quite a sight." snid a voice beside |
him. and his head nearly dropped off
when he saw thnt it belonged to the
genera! commanding the division.
There is a story in that same division
about the same general, which describes
how he was seen one day recently
walking along and chatting
with a top sergeant. This shows that
a use ftas at last been found for top
sergeants.
Thnt division did its share, and paid
its price for the doine, when it helped
to drive the Hun back across the
Marne. That night some one softly j
oi>ened the general's <loor, nitfi tnen as
softly closed it. And the word went i
around that he sat with his fice j
burled !n; bia hands, and his fn?me!
nuiverincr with sobs.?The Stars }?n<l
5>rij?es.
WAR PROFITEER IN HOLLAND
He Has Grown to Surprisingly Large
Numbers and Is Always an Object
of Contempt.
Though he litis fined his pockets
with gold iht? Dutch war profiteer is
a marked man, Isaac F. Marcosson
writes in rhe Saturday Evening i'ost.
I was walking down the Hoogstraat?
tile leading retail business street in
liottenlani?one day last June, when
my companion. a widely known Dutchman,
tagged at my sleeve, pointed to
a man driving in a smart new dog cart
and said: "He's an 'ower.' "
"What is thaf?" I asked.
"A war profiteer," he replied.
I then discovered that the Dutch
have coined this phrase to indicate the
despised type. It is a combination of
~ - - ? i
the first letters or tue two ljuicii
words Oorlog winst, which means war
profits. When pronounced it sounds
like "ower."
Holland "has the number" of these
gentry. They are spotted wherever
they go, and by an interesting system.
It was explained to me by a Dutchman
in this fashion: "Whenever you
see a man with a new raptor car or a
new carriage you can put him down
as* a profiteer. No self-respecting
Dutchman will buy a new vehicle these
days. Besides?as far as the motor is
Ann/mi'iiuil I-A) !O crm vpo fliwl toft
* to OV.UI V\/ WMV* VVW
high for the ordinary man. Some
profiteers try to disguise tlieir cars by
buying low motor car numbers."
The profiteers have grown to such
numbers in The Hague alone they occupy
a whole residential district. By
a fitting irony it is located near the
peace palace. Here they have taken
possession of scores of imposing residences.
whose owners have not been
able to maintain them under war conditions.
It is the domain of the Dutch
new rich. Holland imposes a tax of
oO per cent on war profits. Since 1915
it has yielded the government nearly
SlfJO 000 000 whieh would mean &
gross total of nearly $300,000,000. But
these actual taxes are about as fair
an index to real figures as the inheritance
tax in America is to real
inheritances. Besides, there is the
huge pool of untraceable profits garnered
by the farmers, who have been
among the principal profiteers.
LEARN BEST FARM METHODS
S
:
Modern Principles of Agriculture Being
Instilled Into the Youth of
Our Ally Italy.
The use of scientific farming methods
is spreading and developing in
T*"'" * i-Vm oliminoHnfr nf wnsto nrifl
JLIUJ%V 9 Hit VilUHUU VTA. ?? wvcv ?*MV>
the replacing of the old-fasliioned devices
is becoming a fact in the fertile
land south of the Alps. One of the
most useful agencies for popularizing
these modern methods are agricultural
institutions where boys are taught the
principles of modern farming.
The department of civil affairs of
the American Red Cross has recently
given material assistance to one of
those schools of agriculture established
by the Salesian Fathers in the
fields just outside the Porta Furba, one
of the historic gateways of Rome. This
assistance has been conveyed through
an It^inn organisation, engaged in
work similar to that carried on by the
A. R. C. and known as the "Comitato
pe gli Orfani de Constadini Morti in
Guerra." The boys of the school, all
orphans of peasant soldiers, are given
training in scientific and practical
farming, the object being to strengthen
their attachment to the soil, also to
convert them into good and intelligent
fanners. Lectures and classroom iastruction
are accompanied by field
work with modern tools, under the direct
supervision of the younger fathers
of the institution, who work side
by side with the boys in the fields,
teaching aud demonstrating.
j Atrocious.
H. G. Wells brought back with him
from the Balkans?he explored the
Balkans before the war?a pair of
Bulgarian boots, which he sometimes
wears in the privacy of his Sussex
home.
Joseph Conrad visited Mr. Wells recently
and found him attired in these
boots.
Mr. Conrad studied the boots a long
time, for they .were remarkable?of
soft red leather, the toes pointed and
curled up, the fronts embroidered with
gold thread and strips of white for
about the tops.
k "In heaven's name. Wells," said Mr.
Conrad, "where did you get J1 those
boots?"
? WfAllt* /ml/vtMrxr o fhniflt
iVl I ?? ril^f \ WMM lUp, <1 I I 11 IV.
his feet beneath his chair.
"I bought them," he confessed, "tu
Bulgaria."
"Ha, ha. ha!" laughed Mr. Conrad.
"I've heard a lot about Bulgarian
atrocities, hut I never expected to
come across a pair of them in Sussex."
AH He Wanted to Do.
When David Jackson, negro, of
Brooklyn, was arrested for failing to
register in the draft, he resented the
remarks of officials who were convinced
he was trying to avoid service.
Ai indictment having been returned,
Vtt% n-oo orrnlfmofl hofdPD tho
n tlf ui I (u^uv.u imv ^v^.
States district court. "Ah can fight
any ten Oermans you pick out Just
hold up the first ten Huns that come
alonx iiere. and Ali'll show yon what
Ah can do. Ah'll lick them one at a
time or all together, and not even use
a eun."
"On you want to go into the army?*'
arked Judge Oarvfn.
| "Ali sun* do," reolied Jackson.
"Why rf'dn't you register?"
"Ofc. Ah know nothin* ahout jour
fussy old laws." said the ne.iro. VIII
Ah want to do !s fig'it."
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TAX BETUENS.
I, or an authorized agent, will be
at the following places named below
for the purpose of taking tax returns
of personal property for the fisc .1
year, 1919:
P. X. Boozer's, Tuesday, Jan. 14th
Silverstreet, Wednesday,-Jan. 15th.
St. Luke's, Thursday, Jan 16th.
O'Xeall, Friday, Jan. 17th.
Prosperity, Monday and Tuesday.
on+u ? Oicf
tiCHl. -ULIi Ciiiu
Little Mountain, Wednesday, Jan.
22nd.
Jolly Street, Thursday, Jan. 23rd.
Pomaria, Friday, Jan. 24th.
Glymphinlle, Tuesday, Jan. 28tl?
J. L. Crooks, Wednesday, Jan. 29tb
Maybinton. Thursday, Jan. 30th.
And in the Auditor's office in the
court house until February 20, after
which date 50 per cent penalty will foe
added.
The law requires a tax on a'l note
and mortgages and money; also income
tax on incomes of over $2,500
There is a capitation tax on all dogs
of fifty cents.
All male persons between the age*
of 21 and 60 are liable to pay a poll
tax of $1.00 unless otherwise exempT
All persons owning property in
more than one school district will be
required to make returns in each district,
as the tax books will be made jp
by school districts instead of townships
in 1919.
Be careful to state whether you
have bought or sold real estate dur
ing the year 1918.
J. B. HALFACRE.
County Auditor nation
for Letters of Administration
THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA.
County ot .\ewDerry.
By W. F. Ewart, Prbate Judge:
Whereas, John Yount; made suit to
me to grant him Letters of Admini*
tration of the estate and effects o?
Patsy Young.
These are, therefore, to cite and admonish
all and singular the Kindr?'!
and Creditors of the said Patr '
Young, deceased, that they be and ar
pear before me. In the court of pro
bate, to be held at Newberry on Tue?
day. the 28th day of January, nexf
after publication hereof, at 11 o'cloc"'
iii the forenoon, to show cause, >'r
any they have, yhy the said admin
istration should not be granted.
Given under my hand this 6th dav
of January, A. D. 1919.
W. P. Ewart,
J. P. N. C
SPECIAL TEACHERS
EXAMINATION SATURIM'*
The state board of education h- =
arranged that a special teachers c miination
may be given Sturday, Jr
i$th. at the court house. Thoso tear' era
wishing certificates may stand a* T
secure them Saturday. Examinati' i
begins 9 o'clock, bring tablet and peicil.
C. M. Wltebn.
Sup't Education.