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GREEKS PERISH 6YJUNDREDS Refugees Suffer Fearful HardL! <1 snips on journey nome. THEIR CONDITION PITIABLE Swarm Aboard Trains, and at Each Stop Bodies Are Removed for Burial ?Children Stand Barefoot in Freez1? ? ti/.i. It., i. * .. f.f mg ntficr up 10 i neir Mnwes-" ' American Red Cross Doing All Possible for Unfortunates. ' Between Constantinople and Saloniki, along the route by which deported Greeks are returning to their homes, the refugees are dying by the hundreds of cold and starvation. * At every station crowds of thes? refugees swarm upon every passing train, filling eyery inch of space, riding on the roofs, on the trucks, nnder the guns of th'e trains carrying artillery, under the field kitchens, oh the ammunition?but chiefly crowding Into freight cars, packed so closely that no one can either sit or Lie down. Americans, well provided with clothing, blankets, etc., ana inside a closed car, suffer severely from the cold. The condition of those poor, unfortunate by-products of the world's great war ?thinly clad or In rags, and traveling on the top or In the open cars, can hardly be imagined. Suffer Fearful Hardships. They have lived through monthsvof privation and many of them have had no food for days, except a little which the American Red Cross has managed to get up to stations along tne railroad. The train crawls along slowly? six days from Constantinople, a distance of about 400 miles. " When a train stops at a station and the refugees unpack themselves from the cars to seek food, nearly always there are several dead bodies to be removed, sometimes six, eight or ten. At one station 45 fresh graves were counted. The weather approached the freezing pointy but children stand barefoot in water up IU Uieir stiuurs, itv luiur ini* around the edges of the pools, waiting for food. Get Scantiest of Food. If there are any laws in Bulgaria regulating the labor of women and children, they did not apply to these unhappy Greeks. They were given the scantiest food; many of them lived in the open; and if they objected, or Blackened their efforts, deprivation ot X000, ana DQgJgQg, .were men: rewarw. Under such conditions diseases thrived and the number of Greeks rapidly diminished. No one knows how many of the 120,000 or so Greeks who , were deported will ever return. Apparently some are being detained against their will. One investigator reports that often the names of children are changed by adding an "off" at the end, so as to make them seem to be Bulgarian children. It is hard to believe the reports coming to Greece, where one bears estimates that from one-third to four-fifths of the entire number have perished. Red Cross Renders Aid. Meanwhile the American Red Gross is establishing feeding places along the line of the railway to which these returning pilgrims find their way. . After they reach the Greek territory, at each station groups leave the / trains to go over the plains or the barren hills to their village homes. In one such waiting group sat two wirnon ooph with a small dead child In her arms. If these people succeeded In reaching their homes they were likely to find them either completely destroyed or stripped of furniture, bedding and utensils, and without doors and windows. t > YOUTH DROVE AMBULANCE Boy Saw Nine Months of Servioe Despite His Tender Years. Dever A. Patterson, an ambulance driver for the American Red Cross, passed through Kansas City the other ' * ~ ?a /vlrl day. Jfatterson is omy xu jcaia mu, but has seen active service }-\ France for nine months. He enlisted when 15. He now has orders 10 report "snm'pwhere in the south" for early service transporting wounded soldiers. Patterson, who lives in Chicago, was asked at the Union station what part of France he had served in. "Any place," he said. "When we found the war ye worked, and when that part of it was over we looked around for another part." Jacob Mertz of the United States Marines also passed through. He had suffered both gas and Grapnel during his year's service in France and is now spending a thirty-day furlough from his hospital in the East. Mertz wears the Croix de Guerre, with one palm, and the French Legion of Honor, awarded to his entire brigade. Baby in Old Mission. For the first time in more than forty-five years a baby has been christened in the old Saa Fernando mission at Los Angeles. The baby is Robert Ilafcsett Sullivan, the 7-weeksold son of Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Sullivan of 1'JL'S West Thirty-eighth street. The Itov. Father Iioure, pastor of tile mission, who also had married the parort:'. christened the child. Sullivan Is a mining man and formerly Lived in Maiden, Mass. BLEND FAR FROM COMPLETE | I Expert Finds Descendants of First j American Families Little Affected by the Melting Pot. Through an e:.tensive study of mem- j bers of some oJ the oldest American j families, America as the "melting pot of the nations" proves to be but a convenient expression for writers and orators?merely a picture drawn by those who do not trouble themselves about ! | j the precision of tlieir figures of speech, i a myth without foundation of fact. | For four years Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, a j j curator of the division of physical an- j , thropology of the United States Xa i tional museum, has had under way an ! investigation of the blending of the va! rious types of humanity in America, j ' which, though not yet fully completed, ; j has resulted in the inevitable conclu- j j sion that the force of heredity is too j ; strong to be radically altered in a con- j tury or two and that we must wait I centuries longer to tind a type whu-h i will justify the statement that Amcri ; j ca is in reality a "melting pot" of the j | nations. Doctor Hrdl.icka finds that j i even the lirst material that went into i I , ; the "pot" has not melted yet. j Several hundred members of the. old j white American stock have been meas- I | ured most carefully and examinejl in I ; ninnv wnvs to find if the neonle mak- I I in^ up this stock are tending to hecome alike?if a new subtype of the | human race is being formed here in I America with intermarriage, environment and under the pressure of outward circumstances. Doctor Hrdlicka finds definitely that, as yet, such is not the case. His investigation shows that . the descendants of the Pilgrim fathers, j the Virginia cavaliers, the Pennsylva' ? * - ^ T1 I I ma juuicxi ami uie nuguenuis, wuuc possibly not as much alike as their ancestors probably were, ore still far from a real blend.?Philadelphia Record. i : LIKE NOSTRUMS OF PACIFISTS j African King's Advice About r? slp| ful as the Vaporings of S* 'lec I "Lovers of Peace. 1 i Senator Smith said in a Y. ji J. A. address in Washington: "Germany must be crushed. Peace, otherwise, will behold the world drilling and arming for another and more terrible war. An inconclusive peace Used Car .We have some j in used cars. Th Ihese cars inc | known makes as Ford j Studet Dodgi Chevr Oakla k 11c: ?. nu in urdi uass pay you to see, t buy. Mowers i Lower Main St. t ? ' t p ! ; ;i I A. F. I | PLUMBING AND HEA No Job Too Large, No Job Toe ALL WQRK G Wo ;n tfall nnAiimatirl anrl p i septic tanks a We make a Specialty of To1 NEWBER NOW IS TH SCREEN YO I We use only the be vanized wire. Let x today. Newberry I Building Materia would make tilings worse instead of better. "Wlien a pacifist offers me his nostrums. I telI/!ifin that his advice is worse than the African king's. "A missionary once visited an African king. The king was well pleased with the young man and ordered that f>0O of the most beautiful maidens in his kingdom be brought before him. "When the maidens?a very fine lot indeed?were gathered together, the kin? presented them to the missionary. 'These f>00 jiirls.' he said, 'are the flower of my kingdom. Choose a wife from anions: them.' "The missionary, very much embarrassed. answered: 44 4Oh. your majesty, if I took one. think how jealous the other 409 would be V "That, said the kin?, Ms easily remedied. Take all."' Americans and Tanks. By inventing the caterpillar device for motors. American ingenuity has played h vital part in the war. says P.oys' Life, the boy scouts' magazine. The success of the tank lies in the fact that it lays its own track, so to sneak, and after rolling over it, picks it up. Now the track is merely a belt made of flat links of steel. This belt fts over large wheels at either end of the tank, much as the chain is stretched around the wheels of an au tomobile. On the outside of the neit r.re fixed a series of broad links called track plates, which take a firm grip on the earth. The tank itself rests on rollers which in turn rest on the inside of the belt. It is equipped with two belts on either side of the car, both of which are connected with the driving machinery. When the tank moves straight ahead, both these belts are* driven at the same speed. It is passible, however, to drive the belts independently. It usually travels at a speed of about half a mile an hour. Speed in Making Grenades. The core shop of an old British iron foundry is cited as a revelation in speed in turning out war work. Young girls are producing cores there for hand grenades at the rate of ISO an hour, the cores, the making of which takes 31 movements of the hand, bein<r fnrno/1 nut in 1f5 sr?r>nnr1s_ The foundry itself is old and h.v no means convenient, but by a system of standardization of the work and by encouraging employees to take an intelligent Bargains \ t unusual bargains e price is right, lude such well . / I i baker ? . J olet nd > shape. It will hern before you Garage Phone 300 5USH, TINr, CONTRACTOR \ Small. Correspondence Solicited UARANTEFD levated waterwork systems, nd cesspools. wn and Country Plumbing ry, s. c. E TIME TO UR HOUSE 1 st lumber and gal t? moL-o an aetimota LO iliilXVV/ UJL1 WOUilidl^ 1 j ! i * .umber Co., | ils of All Kinds. i Interest in their work, (he output has j been actually trebled. Every 1.(100 i*eet of floor space in the foundry now produces ions ?>f lijrht castings a wee'e. ' working day sliiff only. It is the only J foundry in that particular town work- j ( In? a 4^-honr week. Besides, the girls j and women, who form 00 per eont of ' the employees. are allowed ren mfn- j utes for lunch and ten minutes' inter- [ . ral In the afternoon. ; Dog Natural Pet of Soldier. Dogs are a source of great eomfort ?nd satisfaction to the young fighting 1 AtooiMAo fitwl in n !III I i *'iii tiiuri n n n in; uiiw m u;? mi < t devotion and companionship many cmve. Thev arc amused by the antics of lively dojrs hut tliey are jriven much deeper pleasure !>v tiie absolute loyalty ;ind complete unselfishness of their pets. If thr-re is one place in the world wh? !*! oijt're ilevotion to a comrade is ino:v p./.ed tluin>if is anj where else tie- nV' 's ?*: an.'y of brave and true soldiers. "First Families" Win. Seven out of ten first prizes in the I bird puzzle contest, conducted Inst | spring by the Albuquerque (iaiiie Pro- j j teetive association, were carried away ( i bv Pueblo and Navajo Indian children, j ) ! The contest was open to all schoolchildren in New Mexico, of which rhe native Indians form but a small traction, but the superior first-hand knowledge ' of the young redmen made them easy , winners over all other contestants. The ' contest consisted of 20 questions on j i native New Mexico birds, arranged to ! bring out knowledge of their habits i i and an understanding of their value Do | agriculture ! v^JJAIR Quickly restored to its natural, orig! inal oolor in a few days with -Mildred- j ina Hair Remedy. It is not a dye.1 Removes dandruff and makes the hair ( clean, fluffy, abundant and beautiful Sample mailed for 10 cents by tte ! MILDRED LOUISE CO., Boston, Mass. For sale at Mayes' Drug Store. GAINS 25 POUNDS IN 30 DATS. Remarkable Experience of P. 0. Clark Builds Up] Weight Quickly. "I was all run down,' wrJtes P. O 1 Clark. "I had to quit work I was so weak. Now,' thanks to tonoline, I look like a new man. I gained 25 I pounds in 30 days." I "Tonoline has put 10 pounds on me j in 14 days," states Chas. Brackett "It j has made me sleep well, enjoy what j I ate and enabled me to work with i I / V l^UHUCi I The Natioi / * Newb< From report Showing Conditio! i \ I RESOURCES Loans and Investments . . . ! * Liberty Bonds and Treasury Certifii cates of Indebtedness . . . United States Bonds .... Cash and dae from Banks and United States Treasury . . . < 1 mm ^ mam^mmm *m mm ^ THE NATIONA! B. C. MATTHEWS, President. I I Counl Member i nterest and pleasure." If you would like to p::t on a tev : pounds of good solid flesh, we wPl send you free a "0 cents 1 ox of to-.jline to prove w!:at it w?Tl do for rou. Address the American Propriety Qp. 3oston Mass.. enclosing 10 rents 'o lelp pay for postage and packing. For sale by Newberry Drug Co. HOLDERS OF LIBERTY BONDS are advised to hold them. If you must sell, deal only with responsible bankers. We Buy and Sell LIBERTY BONDS All Issues and Denominations, Write us if interested. TRUST COMPANY OF GEOREIA Capital and Surplus, $2,000,000 Member Federal Reserve System ATLANTA, GA. Make This Rank V Dependable i An insurance polic unless you were su upon it the "day oi Likewise a Bankin \ value unless it can i after day. > The Service rende: Dependable and E dially invited to m; The Exchc Of Newb "The Bank of 1844 nsed Stat OF lal Bank of erry, South Ca to the Comptroller of tl ? .1 r*i _f n i at tne i,iose or dus 5 975,413.18 fiapiul Stock . Swpfes and Bndf 215,373.13 OrdatiM . 100,000.00 De|Wste * * n*n n ?i / mils rayaote [$i Bowls) 93,089.65 m pjyakk u( $1,383,875.96 L BANK OF NEV T. K. JOHNSTONE, Cashier. iy and City Federal Reserve ? , Hastings' 1919 M Seed Catalog Free It's ready now. One hundred handsomely illustrated pages with, brilliant cover in natural colors. It's both. ^ beautiful and helpful and all that ift necessary to get it is a postal card request. You will find our 1919 catalogue a well worth while book. Jlastin^s Seeds are sold direct by maiJ. You will never find them on. ^ sale in the stores. We have some five hundred thousand customers who buy from us by mail. We please and satisfy them, and we can please and satisfy you in 1919. Planting Hastings' Seeds in your garden or in your fields insures "goodluek" so far as results can be determined by the seed planted. For 30 years Hastings Seeds have been the standard of seed excellence and purity in the South. Only varieties adapted to the South are listed. Quali^cf nnri nrires often less 11 v yji. r than those you pay at home. Write _ ? C /M?\1 av?/1?/1 AfltO lor ire? copy 01 ima spicuum logue now. H. G. HASTINGS C0.? Seedsmen, Atlanta. Ga.?Advt. KIDS INVITED FOR FERTILIZE!!^! I>ids for ten to fifteen tons of fer- V tilizer will be received up to 12:0'1 J noon, April 11, 1919. J. C. Sample. 4-4 3t Supervisor. ( f our Business Home Service , ? y would be of little value J ire that you could depend P fliA ftro " S 1 %IAV AAA V* Jj| g Service is of little or bo be depended upon day red by this bank is both J fficient and you are cor- V ake free use of it. | inge Bank erry, S. C. . the People" mmmmmmmmmmammmmmmmmmmmmmmmmtmp? P ; \ ement Newberry 1 / ... - . ( k rolina le Currency I . iness March 4,1919 I , I ABILITIES <- jJ . $ 100,600.00 rided Prtfts . . 30,902.06 ..... 100,000.00 1 ro/< m /? at iL 0/10.U/ | (cored by Liberty I 177,000.00 ( I Redactors < 249,697.83 $1,383,875.96 ifBERRUC. j W. W. CROMER :jM i Depository System \ "~-i 1 - ; 1