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flff jemil> obIj Join, Kitered at the Postoflice at New. V?rrj\ S. CM as 2nd class matter. F. H. A I'LL, EDITOR, Friday, January 31, 1919. PRESIDENT'S TRIBUTE TO ALL WOMEN -- ? ? **> C?h/.h* Wft. .v" -He I Ola a ueiegdnun wi v..v.. ...... ing Women That He Hoped Franchise Might in Some Way Be Presented to Conference. Paris, Jan. 26.?A tribute to the wo men of all countries, and of France particularly, and the hope that the cause of equal franchise may in some ' way be "presented to the consideration of the peace conference" were voiced "**" ? iwnrtnVi tA O by President wnson w a &^cc?.u delegation of French working women at the Murat mansion yesterday. The text was made public today, the cables yesterday being clogged with news oi the league of nations. But in no circumstances can the tiflace conference be expected to dictate to the several nations in this matter, the president explained, since it was a purely domestic issue. Again the president reiterated the * principle whiclli he has unswervingly - expounded since he came to Europe: That "this must be a people's peace because this was a people's war." The people, not the governments, won the war, Mr. Wilson deciarea. Addressing a delegation of working women of France at the Murat Man sion, President Wilson said: "Mile Thomson and Ladies: You have not only done me a great honor but you have touched me very much by this unexpected tribute and may 1 add that you have frightened me be cause,, realizing the great confidence you place in me, I am led to question ' * AAVt my own aDiiity to jusinjr mat, w**fidence. "You have not placed your con:i dence wrongly in my hopes and purposes, but perhaps not all of those hopes and purposes can be realized in the great matter that you, have so much at heart?the right of women tc take their full share in the political life of the nations to which they belong "That is necessarily a domestic question for the several nations. A conference of peace settling the relations of nations with each other would be regarded as going very much out " ti Avt aaV tr side us proviuw n it uuu&i wvu ?>. dictate to the :sevejcal states what their internal policy should be. At the same time, those considerations apply also to conditions of labor, and it does seem to be likely that the conference will take some action by way of expressing its sentiments, at any rate, with regard to the international as" * ~"1" nn/1 T ohnlllfl pects, at least, ui *awi auu ?. hope that seme occasion might be offered for the case not only of the women of France, but of their sisters all over the world, to be presented to the consideration of the conference. "The conference is turning out to be a rather unwieldy body, a very large body, representing a great many nations, large and small, old and new, and the methods of organizing its work successfully, I am afraid, will have to be worked out stage by stage. "Therefore, I have no confident prediction to make as to the way in which it can take up questions of*his sort. But what I have most at heart today is to avail myself of this opportunity to express my admiration for the women of France, and my admiration for the women of all the na% tions that have been engaged in this war. "By the fortunes of this war, the chief burden has fallen upon the women of France, and they have borne it with a spirit and a devotion which has commanded the admiration of the ?rorld. I do not think that the people of France fully realize, perhaps, Va intoncitv of svrrmathv that other 1<uw v? ?^ 4 w nations have felt for them. "They think of us, in America for example, as a long way off, and we are in space% but we are not in thought.' You must remember that the United States is made up of the nations of Europe; that French sympathies run straight across the seas, not merely by historic association, but by blocd connection, and that these nerves of sympathy are quick to transmit the impulses of the one nation to the other. "We have followed your sufferings with a feeling that we are witnessing one of the most heroic and, may I add, at the same time, satisfactory things in the world?satisfactory be cause it showed the strength of the human spirit, the indomitable power of women and women alike to sustain any burden if the cause was great enougn. "In an ordinary war, there might have been some shrinking, some sink ing of effort, but this was not an ordinary war. "This was a war not only to redeem France from an enemy, but to redeem the world from an enemy, and France, therefore, and the women of France, strained their heart to sustain the i world. j "I hope that the strain has not '(been in vain J know that it lias 1101 [ been in vain. ! "This war has been popular and un; like other wars in that it seemed 'sometimes as if the chief strain was behind the lines and not at the lines, j "It took so many men to conduct the !war that the older men and women at i j home had to carry the nation. Not '; only so, but the industries of the najtion were almost as much a part of -'the fighting as the things that took i place at the fronts. i "So it is for that reason that I have !said to those with whom*I am at present associated, that this must be . i a people's peace, because this was a ! , yeuyie ? v. u-i. , j '"The people won this war. not the /governments, and the peopl| must L reap the benefits of the war. At every i : turn we must see to it that it is not L i t an adjustment between governments merely, but an arrangement for the peace and security of men and women everywhere. "The little obscure sufferings and .the daily unknown privations, the un.! spoken sufferings of the heart, are the , i tragical things of this war. They have been borne at home, and the . j center of the home is the woman. I "My heart goes oat to you there, | fore, ladies, in a very unusual degree , i and I welcome this opportunity to I bring you this message not from myself, merely, but from the great peo, pie whom I represent** ' i * , I [Letter From Jas. A. Cromer to His 11 Sister. ' * December 26, 1918. ^ Dear Sister: I received your letter tonight and was so proud to hear from home that I could not read it for cry. ing. It is the first I have received since I left Columbia. You may know how I felt, Lula. I have written a letter every week since I have been in France. I don't know what became of the mail but I will get mail.right along now since it started for I am now in a regular outfit. ; 'Well, Lula, you ask me about coming home. I think we will be about first Vmtfit tn Imvp "Fran pp. Tt is about the first landed in France. The date is now we will set sail the 19th of next month,-if orders are not changed. I hope orders will not be changed, i Lula, you wanted to know what was wrong with me when I was in the hospital. At that time I couldn't tell, but I can write anything I want to now. I had bronchitis* of the stomach and catarrh of the head. I was sure sick for ten days. I was in the hos pital three weeks but was waited on well and had a good looking nurse and that helped me out, you know. I was glad to hear that KrelLwas still living. If he had been with the 6th Division he would have known more about the war. I would sure love to hear little William talk. I know he is one rounder. Tell Rufus the ground is covered with snow and tell Carrie I will be proud to see the boy and her but there are Jacks enough in France. I bet Anna has a fat boy. Tell her if it is as good looking as his Uncle James he is all right. Tell the girls to write to me now. I think it wilf come through all right since I have got located. I would enjoy reading them and would try to answer every one oi them. Tell little Lillie I was glad to read her letter. If I had the paper I would answer it but the Y. M. C. A. is out at present, but to write any way. Alice said the little girl had hair like mine but 1 am nearlv liald headed now. We got off Christmas day and had a good dinner. Tell Fred we had S enough beer to swim in. You said ! Papa was going to move to the Minich place. I hope he is making a good |one but I don't know what to say, but to back his own judgment. The next ;time you write tell me how my cotton is and how Papa came out with his. Be sure and write Papa and Mama for me. I hope that they are better by | now. I would like to hear from Bessie and all the rest. I guess till I get ihome Papa will be at his new home. ;iie sure to tell Mama ana rapa irom Ihome through the Y. M. C. A. I sure {did enjoy it.1 This pack contained two ; packs of cigarettes and one pound of ! chocolate and two cigars and a pack of gum. I sure it, the pack and your i letter, gave me a happy Christmas, j Tell Lawrence and George I wrote jthem about a dozen letters. I reckon they got them. I never got any answer. Paper is out and scarce until I get some. Will close, hoping this letter will reach you soon. Answer right back. Hoping to be home soon, with good luck an dbest wishes. p Your brother, James A. Cromer. The new uniforms for the policemen are "humdingers," as our linotype operator would say. There is a new air of neatness and nifiiness about those who have donned the . suits. They are handsome?that is, . the uniforms are. [ There are too many influenza cases i for personal mention | NO DISGRACE TO FEEL FEAR' i One Result of War Has Been Saner Idea of What Constitutei Real Bravery. | An English observer colls attention | to the fact that our world war has I destroyed the fear of being afraid. Heretofore, even to most distant anI Hnnitr rh? *.?! * miiilitv insisted on in I I the soldier was that he should be i j fearless and the more callously so the i better. The faintest tremor of timidj ity was a black mark against the most j respondent knight as well as the lowJ liest bowman or halbardier, and the j schooling for war was an utter defl; ance of the personal risk. j. This theory held, as many will re| member, even till the period of the j Boer war, when the British suffered ! so severely in officers because it was t held cowardly for a commander to : ] seek cover. Men, then as now, felt ' fear, for that Is one of flesh's attri- ! butes and, indeed, is one of the most \ ' valuable of human possessions, since j fear Is our protection from dangers . I and harms innumerable. We fear wild j j bepsts to avoid them, snakes and j j spiders to increase our attention, j j storms and tempests that we may pre- j | pare means of escape from them. I So it was only in^battle that chiv- ; | airy insisted that man should be with- j : out fear, or pretend to be. | With the coming of uew warfare, j however, all lands at once came to a j j more sane understanding and the old ; physical bravery has given place to ! moral resolution. The man who now j enters the hell of shell fire, of hurled j i flames and deadly gases, no longer I : attempts to fool himself into the be- j ! lief that he is not afraid. He bnowi ! I full well and only a stupid nature ! j could avoid the knowledge "that the ! human is at the mercy of forces a | million times beyond his own ability | to counter. The old knight might j really believe he was able to unhorse . all the enemies that rode against him : ? ' : ha 1 ana tnereiore migm: tuura>u;n; :? without fear, but how can a soldier j feel that way when facing modern ; weapons of destruction? j Therefore, it is no longer a dis- j grace to feel fear or to admit it; the i only disgrace is to allow fear to pre- j vent one doing his duty. How much ! finer fiber is needed for this new de- ! fiance! ; Need for More Consuls. The chairman of the shipping board ; has called the attention of congress i and the people to the need of enlarg- j ing our consular service abroad, in j view of the fact that our great mer- j 4 chant marine win oe reieuseu ivi uaa < in foreign trade. ' | Mr. Hurley tells us, observes the In- ; dependent (New York), that the Uni-ij ted States will have 25.000,000 tons of 1 j merchant shipping by the end of 1920, j j and that as fust as these ships can be ; J freed from military work they will en- j ter commerce. The present consulates would be entirely inadequate to handle ~ Thova orp Tint" mis eiiiargcu uuoiutoo. xuv>v ?. v j enough of them, their staffs are too , small and they are handicapped by in-! experience with duties that will be de-> manded and by antiquated regulations, i Even now the burden of work, especially in the way of inquiries to be answered, is overtaxing the undermanned and underpaid force. Mr. Hurley j therefore pleads that immediate step9 j be taken to remedy the situation. "We need more consuls and larger. consular staffs," he tells us. "If wfejo j not provide them today and prepare j for the great growth in our merchant J marine and trade after the war, I fear j - * ?? : 1,_ J that we snan suner a senuus uicat- i down." 1 ! You've Heard 'Em. "Look here," said the city editor to the cub reporter, "you should write everything as briefly as possible. In- j i stead of saying 'the middle-aged bald-j ; headed performer in the hired aggre- i gation of followers of Orpheus who | nightly provide the harmony at one of I our leading temples of mirth, seized ; his trombone firmly in his hands, ; placed his feverish lips to the mouth- j piece and sounded thereon an unearth- \ ! ly tone like the wailing of a lost soul ' i on the main street of Inferno'?now j 6horten that up." I So the reporter merely wrote: "The ! slip horn player In the orchestra blew [ | a helva note." ! i j 1 r A Cattle Queen. j A cattle-shipping season to the Easti em stockyards is in full blast, and i Mary Vail, Los Angeles heiress, said j to be the richest maiden in California, ; j Is in these large sales and shipments, figuring as a notable cattle queen. Miss | j Vail is the daughter of the late Wal-; . T7oil ivhr? hart nwr 300.000 head of : 1^1 ? ?i*f "**V M%%V W steers and sheep on his famous ranches. Under the direction of Miss Vail and her mother the cattle do| main left by the father and husband ! greatly increased in value. The meat 1 j barons are paying them $1,000,000 for j steers and sheep this fall.?San Francisco Bulletin. _ _ j | Back in the Game. "Another sign that the war is over." , , "Yes." j "An old-fashioned stock promoter, wearing diamonds and flashy clothes, was in here the other day." "Well! WellV i "Those chaps are crawling out ot: ' their dugouts again!"?Birmingham Age-Herald. A Realization. "How's prohibition workin' in Crimson Gulch ?" "All right," replied Three Finger ' Sam. "Tfce beys are beginnin' to realize that a man's conversation is jes' as interestin' when he's sober an' a heap more reliable." err*" .v.?- ? Make Our store is I nlace at which bility of our m< this a high pria ooint ? Qualit I considerations ^ the most econ prices are no t merchandise o much less. WW r y We are sti Capes, Hats Winter j I Blankets, C lots are on s Some are rrn I original pric It will pay y( I I 1216 to 122 SPOILED BIG WEDDING FEAST How Ex-German Emperor Upset Dinner on Which H^rr Ballin Had Spent Much Money. Herr Ballin was notpd for the extravagant dinners which he gave on great occasions, says the Edinburgh Scotsman. Probably the most magnificent of all was that which he arranged to grace the wedding of the kaiser's daughter to the duke of Brunswick. The floral decorations alone cost $10.fMKl thf> rfinnpr worked our at about $85 a plate, and the wines at about .530. But the dinner, from Herr Ballin's point of view, was a failure, for the kaiser and kuiserin, who were ro have been present, sent word in the afternoon that they couhl not come; and it was in their honor, of course. that Hen* Ballin had spent his thousands on the banquet. One of his servants has said that when Herr Ballin received the message that the emperor could not come, he flew into a tremendous rage. He sent for his hutler. and ere the man had reached Herr Ballin's study, his master shouted out to him: "The emperor cannot come to dinner tonight?put the whole show off!" and then slammed the door. The hntl^r riir? not know exactly what to do. To put off so important guests as were to be present was. of course, an impossibility; but no one in the household dared to approach the master of it to suggest this. However, at about 5 o'clock Herr Bnllin had sufficiently recovered his temper to come downstairs nnri give some necessary directions about the banquet. Forest Hospitality. One morning our company was drilling, when a Boche plane flew over. We usually go into the woods when Ciey are first sighted, but this time the captain said: "Everybody down and lie stilL" Then he added: "No kvnnlr -fnv tfio WfbfiflS se uia tving a uj.cu.0. avj. u.v ? ? He'll see where we go and probably bomb us tonight" An acting private in the rear rank replied: "Well, sir, let's run into Boraebody else's woods." ? Ontario Post. Reverse Preferable. This Illness of mine is caused by a germ, the doctor said." "What did he call it?" "Really can't tell you. I caught the disease, but not the name." Philosophical. The philosophical proprietor or a seaside hotel ended his Rules Bulletin for inec chus: "Remember, 'Time and tide wait for no man.' For ladies' rules, see other bulletin."?Jndge. / 0 P i s ? $ && m s a cIncorporates nr*1 ^ 7 This Your a pleasant, cheerf to shop. The qual jrchandise is unque i place. May we JL ? y and genuine wor tvith us, but such g( omical in the lonj ligher than prevaij f equal merit, in owing new Coat and White Goc Ready-to- Wear )utings and m ale at big pria arked for less t :e. \ >u to visit our 3v3r2 # k VrORPOR ATF' 20 Main St. Ne 111 111 11 I RABBIT SKIN FOR LEATHER i Possibility That Tanning Process Hail Been Discovered That Will Solve Big Problem. At present in Annonay, France, an j earnest effort is being made to introj djice rabbit skin leather In shoe maki inf Annnnnv fs in the valley of the Rhone, just south of Lyons. It was there, about 75 years ago, that a chemist devised a tanning process in which the hair was removed from the pelt of a rabbit without damage to the skin. Previously no one had been able to remove the hair without injuring the pelt. The chemist had his process tried out for a short time, but it did not ! prove to be a commercial success an? i the rabbit-skin shoe came to be only ' a memory. Less than ten years ago some Germans got hold-of the old chemist's formula and began to manu, facture rabbit leather. ; At one of the industrial expositions in Germany in 1900 there was a display of 250 styles of shoes made of rabbit skins. The exhibition won first prize in the department of footwear. Now i the French have taken up the work of , the old chemist of Annonay and are : manufacturing shoes out of rabbit ! peilS. ! i MULE OF PECULIAR COLOR j ! Drtyer Explained With Patience Just How the Animal's Strange Appearance Was Brought About. : Two mules, drawing an army service wagon, caused a sensation in Knightsbridge a short time ago. One mule I was poor but honest In appearance, 5 brown in color; the oilier was a delij cate shade of green. The green mule was solemnly unconscious of the attention he was attracting. "Effects of war oats?" asked a facetious United j States soldier. A workman rubbed his eyes and then muttered, "camoyflage." 1 ~ ~ - - - J it The A. s. u. driver loosen iuuiuurhij ashamed of the turnout'. He stopped I to pick up a crate. "What is the matj ter with your pony?" asked a mild man. "I am tired of being asked it, j and It isn't a pony," replied the driver. "It is all through the chemical. Goodj ness knows what color it will be tomorrow. Tts coat was very light once, ; and the other mules usdri to kick it I We washed it in some chemical dye I to make it darker. The sergeant | can't remember the name of the dye, I and now that it is wearing off, it Is a J different color each day. You are the last person I shall explain it to." He drove off furiously?a khaki driver on a slate-gray lorry drawn by one honest brown mule and one shameless mule of an esthetic shade of green.? ] London Mall. . ... SIFllPllfw 1 1 ian jjviAivi j | ^ i * | " ' Store | ill, commodious I 4 i J I s ny ana aesira- g ma stioned. Nor is emphasize this th are the first ^ )ods are always i X run, and our 1 elsewhere for many instances 4 Suits, Coats, 1 >ds. , Millinery, _ J J tmerous oaa s ? reductions. 1 han half the - J 4 \ : now. ^-Jlj ?? # D ^ wberry, S. C. ; i Death of Mrs. John Lee Davis. ( Many friends were shocked last night to learn of the death of Mrs. Louise Harbin Davis, wife of John. L. Davis, at her home at 1103 Elmwood avenue. Mrs. Davis had been j ill for about a week with influenza aM J tnimh Keif tor* voofArrtav BB ' ciliu (typcitl CU UlUk,U UbbbVt j WW. ?v r | but about 2:30 in the afternoon had a ^ I sinking spell and never rallied. Her *** ! heart was affected by the other trou- I bles. Jfefl Mrs. Davis was a native jpf States- i^H jville, N. C., and had been^a^jresident of Columbia about ten years. Her husband, John Lee Davis, is secretary a of the State Federation of Labor and ^ federal labor agent at Columbia. She leaves also a little daughter, seven |H years old, and her mother, Mrs. Mat- Jj tie Harbin unci several brothers and sisters at Statesville, N. C. ^ | The funeral will be at the home this afternoon at 3:30, conducted by Rev. C. A. Freed, D. D., pastor of | T.nthoron r.hiirch of which: jutuvuv**.? ~ . I Mrs. Davis was a member and a choir. | member. The interment will be in : Statesville, N. C., Monday morning. J| j just after the arrival of the train from jB Columbia?Columbia Record, 26th. Mr. Robert Y. Leavell left Monday for the Baptist hospital in Columbia to ! undergo operatioii for appendicitis. - J T He was accompameu uy aui?. jjca?cu.? Robert E. ,Leavell and Dr. Gilder. !l^r2 'Phone your grocer or druggist for a dozen bottlesof 1 his delicious diges^ant,?a giass \\ itIi meals gives delightful relief, or 1.0 charge for the first dozen used. 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